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Adding and Maintaining Volumes

Adding Volumes

Right-Click to add volumes

To add a Volume either:

  • Right-click on a Media Type and select Add Volume
  • Right click in the inventory window and select Add
  • Press Insert on the keyboard when viewing the Volume List.

In the Edit new volume window enter the volume ID of the new volume to be added and click Save.

Scan to Add Volumes

Right-Click in the Volume List, navigate to Special Operations, and select Scan → Scan to Add Volumes to use a Barcode scanner to add Volumes to your default repository.

To add volumes to a repository other than your default, right click the required repository and select ScanTo Add and scan volumes to be added.

Deleting Volumes

You must have Alter rights to delete volumes

Select the required volume, or range of volumes from the inventory window you want to delete.

Right click highlighted volume/s and select Delete, or press Delete (DEL) on the keyboard.

The Volume Deletion window will display the Repositories where the volumes to be deleted are located in the top pane and volume ID's in the lower pane.

If the Volume Deletion window is not displayed it is because you are running an outdated version of TapeMaster. Instructions to delete volumes in older versions of TapeMaster can be found here

Each row in the top pane will, along with the repository description (or ID), list the number of volumes for deletion and the delete status of either Deletes Allowed or Deletes Forbidden.

For any repository listed with a status of Deletes Forbidden you must either:

  • Right clicking the row and selecting Allow to change status to Deletes Allowed
  • Right clicking the row and selecting Remove to remove the volumes before deletion of any volumes located in a repository with Deletes Allowed status.

Click Delete Volumes and Yes to the delete confirmation to delete the volumes.

As deleting volumes is permanent, clicking No to the delete confirmation is your last opportunity to cancel the delete function.

When a volume is deleted its historical entries remain in the database. If a deleted Volume is added back in to the database, all previous history records including when deleted and added back, are listed under that volumes History tab.

As setting repository to Allow Deletes alters the properties of that repository, if required, reset the repository to no deletes by right clicking the required repository, selecting Properties and change the Allow Deletes field in the Options tab to false.

See Special Operations Menu for further information.

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