Managing Scratch Volumes With TMSS10LibraryManager

TMSS10LibraryManager is used to automatically manage Scratch Volume levels for your Backup Library.

Steps to manage:

Set Library Repository Capacities.
Set Scratch Repository preferences.
Designate a Target Repository to eject Library Volumes to when space is required.
Create a batch file
Schedule batch file to run automatically

Set Library Capacities

Open TapeMaster, select the required Customer and Media Type from the Customer Tree.

For this example we will use Customer-ID US01 and Media-ID LTO along with the Repository-ID LIBR.

Right click on the Repository, or double click, and select the Options tab.

Towards the bottom, expand the Capacity section by clicking on the + sign.

In the field Capacity, enter the number of Volume Slots in your Library.

In the field Minimum Scratch enter the minimum number of Scratch Volumes required in the Library.

Click '“Save'' to update the Repository data.