New Media Group (General)

Spare Group Properties (General)

Use this dialog box to create new media groups or to view or modify the properties of a spare group.

Specifies the name of the spare group. Use the space to provide a new name.

Library

Identifies the name of the library to which the spare group is attached.

• Low

  Specifies the minimum number of media that should be available inside the library for the spare group at all times. If the number of available media falls below the specified amount, the system generates an event message and generates the MediaAgents (Insufficient Storage) alert, if configured.

• High

  Specifies the maximum number of media in the spare group.  The high watermark is used as a reference to automatically discover new media into the group, if the Auto-Discovery options are enabled in the library in the Library Properties (Media) tab.

  Limit to

  Use the space to indicate the maximum number in the spare group.

  Unlimited

  Specifies that there is no maximum limit to the number of media in the spare group.

Spare Media Selection criteria

• Use recycled media first

  Specifies that the system will utilize recycled media first when a job requires a media, and if recycled media is available in the scratch pool.

• Use new media first

  Specifies that the system will utilize new media first when a job requires a media, and if new media is available in the scratch pool.

Priority

Specifies the priority for the media group. Together with High watermark, this option is used by the automatic media discovery operation to distribute new media into spare groups, if the Auto-Discovery options are enabled in the library in the Library Properties (Media) tab.

Identifies the number of media that are currently available in the spare group.

Media Type

• Default Media Type

  Indicates the default media type for the spare group.

Before performing a data protection operation, always verify and ensure that sufficient media is available in the spare group associated with the library which will be used by the operation. Data protections operations may get impacted if the media in the scratch pool is insufficient. You can determine the spare groups below their low watermark levels from the Media Information (Scratch Pools)  report.

Watermark is not applicable for stand-alone drives.

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