Creating Virtual Disk-Media

This guide explains how to add several virtual media.

Creating a Media Pool

First, a new media pool has to be created. Important fields:

Starting an Archive Adjustment

Normally an archive adjustment is used to synchronize loader contents with the SEP sesam database. It can be used to create several virtual media.

For this an archive adjustment has to be started in:

Important values are:

The number of slots is determined by the size of the media pool. The media pool's size in the example is 300 MB.

In this case it makes sense to add 3 media with 100 MB each.

The size is defined by selecting:

Custom sizes can be defined in Configuration -> Media pool

Then the archive adjustment has to be started.

Checking the Media

Once the archive adjustment is finished successfully the status messages look like this:

and finally the following media are available:

Troubleshooting

If the archive adjustment was not successful, check the daily log for related errors.