Selecting the Media tab provides access to the Media view of the ARCserveIT database.
The Media Records view tracks information about the media used with ARCserveIT. This includes information about formatting, how much the particular media has been used since it was put into service, and the number of errors (if any) that have occurred while ARCserveIT was using that media.
Each time a media is formatted or merged into the ARCserveIT database, a new record is added to the Media Records.
In addition, media associated with other ARCserveIT servers will be entered into the ARCserveIT database, once it is read by the Media Server (asmediad).
When selecting the Media Records object, media summary information is displayed including the media's name, ID, serial and sequence number, and whether or not the media has been destroyed.
The following section describes how to get more details about media.
You can choose to view more details for media. The details include how many errors ARCserveIT has encountered while reading from or writing to the media, how much data (total) has been written to the media, and number of read and write passes ARCserveIT has made over the media.
To view details for media:
Property - provides general media property information.
Date - provides date related information including format, expiration, last access, last overwritten, and destroyed date, if applicable.
Current Status - use this information to see if the errors associated with the selected media are becoming more frequent. Frequent errors may infer that the media is reaching the end of its life span.
Total Status - use this information to see the errors associated with the media's entire life span to date. Using this information you can determine if a particular media should be retired because of high media errors, or if it has been in use for a long time.
5. Expand the session to view a list of files that were backed up with the session.
6. Click on the file to view file related information.
