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Importing Media
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Importing Media
Importing media adds media already used by Data Protector to a media
pool, without losing the data on the media. Media used by Data Protector
are media that were formatted by Data Protector, but exported from the
Data Protector cell.
Importing a medium writes detailed information about backed up data
on the medium to the IDB, so that you can later browse it for a restore.
Use media import when moving your media between Data Protector
cells.
This operation is not available for media in free pools.
NOTE Attribute information such as object or media size will not be
reconstructed during import. Thus the size of the imported objects will be
shown as 0 KB.
Importing can take a considerable amount of time, depending on the
device and media used.
IMPORTANT Import all media used in one backup session at once. If you add only
some media from the backup session, you will not be able to restore data
spanning to other media.
How to Import
Media
To import media, browse for the specific device, media pool or library
slot in the Devices & Media context, right-click it and click Import. For
detailed steps, refer to the online Help index keyword “importing
media”.
If you use library devices, you can select multiple slots using the Ctrl
key and import several media in a single step. Refer to Figure 4-3. For
detailed steps, refer to the online Help index keyword “importing media
in library devices”.