If necessary, you can manually delete the contents of a media before the media's remaining data is aged. Use this option if you require the use of the media for critical data protection jobs and are certain you will no longer need any of the remaining data on that media.
Caution
Once contents of the media are deleted, the contents are not available for data recovery operations. In addition, the next data protection operation does NOT become a full backup automatically. After you delete the contents of the media, run a full backup immediately for all the subclients that are associated with the media.
Procedure
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From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Manage > Storage > Tape.
The Tape page appears.
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Click the tape storage for which you want to delete the contents of media.
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Click the Media tab.
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Select Assigned from Media List heading.
The contents of the Assigned Media group appear.
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Select the media that you want to delete, click the Actions button
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Click Yes.
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Type erase and reuse media, and then click Delete.
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Select the name of the scratch pool to which you want to move the media after the contents are deleted.
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Click Save.
The software moves the media to the specified scratch pool.