Viewing details about a tape

You can choose to view more details for a tape. The details include how many errors SCO ARCserve/Open has encountered while reading from or writing to the tape, how much data (total) has been written to the tape, and number of read and write passes SCO ARCserve/Open has made over the tape.

Audrey is interested in seeing how much data, total, has been written to a particular tape. She also wants to see if SCO ARCserve/Open has had any problems writing to the tape.

To view details for a tape:

  1. Highlight the tape you want to view.

  2. Click the View Details button.

    The View Tape Record dialog box appears:

    Use this record to determine if a tape should be retired because of high media errors, or if it has been in use for a long time.

  3. Click the Sessions button to see a list of sessions on this tape.

  4. Select a session then click Files to see a list of files that were backed up with this session.


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