19.6 Group Management
The Groups Management section allows you to create and manage groups of tape volumes.
- Groups are a Collection of Tape Volumes used to easily group content based on the customer's criteria possibilities can include:
- Customer's Client Names (In the event in the future a client needs only their content.)
- Projects - Such as a TV / Movie Series
- Dates
- ADD NEW GROUP
- Group Name:
- Add a Group Name
- Read Priority:
- Priority from 1-100
- The lower the priority number the more urgent the job is.
- Write Priority:
- Priority from 1-100
- The lower the priority number the more urgent the job is.
- Read Limit:
- 1-10
- The number of jobs in the running queue. This allows other jobs to come into the queue after this number is met.
- Write Limit:
- 1-10
- The number of jobs in the running queue. This allows other jobs to come into the queue after this number is met.
- Auto Add:
- This is a check box in the next screen.
- You should have 4 or so pre-formatted tapes in the Auto Group so if a Group is empty it can pull from here and keep running.
- Changer:
- Which change this Group is associated to.
- Name:
- This is the Group Name.
- This is what is selected when you add Tape Volumes to a Group.
- Total Capacity:
- This is the Total Capacity of all the Tape Volumes in the Group currently.
- % left:
- This is how much space is collectively remaining in the Tape Group.
- Read Priority:
- Priority from 0-100
- The lower the priority number the more urgent the job is.
- Write Priority:
- Priority from 0-100
- The lower the priority number the more urgent the job is.
- Read Limit:
- 1-10
- The number of jobs in the running queue. This allows other jobs to come into the queue after this number is met.
- Write Limit:
- 1-10
- The number of jobs in the running queue. This allows other jobs to come into the queue after this number is met.
- Auto Add:
- This is a Check box, check the box if you want SF Archive to automatically add a new Tape Volume if the Group runs out of Tapes.
- Changer:
- This is what Changer is associated to this Group.
- The Changer is signified by number which can be found in the Changers tab.
- (Button) Volume Information:
- Gives information on the Tape Volumes in the Group.
- (Button) Add Volume:
- Allow the user to add specific Tape Volumes to the Group.
- (Button) Delete Group:
- Use with Caution, this Deletes a Tape Group.