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Media Pool Manager

The Media Pool Manager allows you to create and maintain media pools. Arcserve Backup creates a catalog file on your media to improve performance for merge jobs and database backup jobs. The Media Pool Manager helps you to perform the following tasks:

• Create a new media pool--To assign media to a media pool, you first need to create the media pool. A media pool name can consist of up to 16 uppercase characters.
• Delete an existing media pool--To delete a media pool, you must first re-assign the media to another media pool.
• Move media in a pool--You can move media from one set to another. You can also move media from a Scratch Set to a Save Set and vice versa by using the Assign Media and Remove Media options.
• Perform location maintenance--You can enter information about a new location, modify information about an existing location, or assign media to a location.
• Assign media to a media pool--You can assign media to a media pool during the process of formatting. When you format media using Device Management, you define certain media pooling information that will be associated with the media.
• Remove media from a media pool--You can remove media from a media pool.

Note: Media Pool operations, backup jobs using the Overwrite option, Tape Erase operations, and backup jobs involving Media Pools (such as GFS rotation jobs) are not supported on WORM (Write Once Read Many) media. These operations are either blocked or disabled in WORM support updates.