Adding new Volumes to Tapetrack can be accomplished using one of two methods.

Using Send to add new Volumes is only recommended when the new Volumes are part of a consignment being sent already. If just adding new Volumes to the inventory using Volume Management is the correct process to use.

Select Send from the Task Menu and click Next to continue.

Notes:

• A If required you can set the location for the log files to be written to, or leave the default.
  To change the default directory, click in the field to the right of the Log File Folder, click on the more options button (…) and select the preferred directory.
• B Under Advanced Options:
  • Set the time deadline before a Volume will be marked as overdue at its Target Repository.
  • The date for the Volumes next move.
  • List of pre-defined Volumes .
    To add additional lists, create new files in the install directory that match the pattern List-*.txt.

This opens the Scan and Modify window which, by default, opens the Scan To Add Volumes window.

Scan out the required Volumes using your preferred scanning method.

When all Volumes are scanned in, close the Scan To Add Volumes window by clicking X at top right of window.

Select new Volume by clicking on it to display the attributes in the right of the window

Select, in order, the correct Customer ID, Media ID from the identity section.

From the Disposition section, set the Target Repository, Next Move and Data Cluster (optional) to the required values.

Volume.

Click Next to continue.

If you have extended attributes set for the Media type the new Volumes were added to, the Modify Extended Attributes window will be presented.

Clicking in the field to the right of each extended attribute, you can type in the relevant values. Click Next to continue.

This will bring up the Complete window, from here you can:

• Click View Log File to view the log.
• Click Print Log File to print out the log file for further reference.
• Click About this Software to view product and support (email, phone & website) information.
• Click Back to return to start menu and select another task.
• Click Finish, Cancel or X to exit TapeTrack Lite.