This recipe will cover standard tape management tasks for a DPM server environment.
As a DPM administrator, you are responsible for tape management tasks that could result in very negative scenarios if neglected.
Within the DPM console, you can perform all the tape management tasks that are associated with your responsibility.
The following list presents all the tape management tasks in DPM that you should perform:
Add or remove tapes
Inventory tapes
Mark a tape as free
Identify an unknown tape
Re-catalog an imported tape
View tape contents
Mark a tape as a cleaning tape
Erase a tape