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.
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From the CommCell Browser, expand Storage Resources | Libraries | library name | Media By Groups | Assigned Media.
The contents of the Assigned Media pool is displayed in the right pane of the Browser.
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Right-click the desired media, point to All Tasks and then click Delete Contents.
Delete Content Warning dialog box will be displayed only for those media that are available in the library.
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Click Yes.
A message appears that asks if you want to delete the content.
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Type erase and reuse media and click OK.
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Select the name of the scratch pool to which the media must be moved, after the contents are deleted.
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Click OK and then click OK.
The media information is deleted from the CommServe database and the media is moved to the specified scratch pool.