Service Media Pools

Service media pools are used to automatically sort tapes and manage their free capacity for writing data. Service media pools are automatically created by Veeam Backup & Replication. The following predefined media pools are available:

• Free — a media pool containing empty tapes. You can use this media pool to replenish custom pools with new tapes when needed.
• Unrecognized — a media pool containing tapes that were loaded to tape device. They need further identification by user that can be done by running the inventory or catalog job.
• Imported — a media pool containing non-empty tapes. These include tapes identified by the tape catalog job.
• Retired — a media pool containing retired tapes that reached the maximal number of re-writes. This media pool may also contain tapes with some mechanical breakdown.

You cannot create, modify or delete service media pools.