Media Pools

Media pools are logical containers created in Veeam Backup & Replication to organize and administer tapes.

Veeam Backup & Replication has the following types of media pools:

Service Media Pools are created automatically and are used for automatic tape administration.
Media Pools are created by user and contain tapes for backups.
GFS Media Pools are created by user and contain tapes for GFS backups.

All Veeam media pools are global. They span tapes that belong to multiple libraries. In a global media pool, you can move tapes between the libraries without need to catalog them.

Note

Consider the hardware encryption. If the tapes are encrypted by native hardware means of a tape library, you cannot read them at tape device with another encryption standard or with hardware encryption turned off.

Placing Tapes to Media Pools

Veeam Backup & Replication works only with tapes that are placed to a media pool. To introduce tapes to Veeam Backup & Replication, you need to run importing procedure against all new tapes you load to your tape devices. Importing registers tapes in the Veeam Backup database after which Veeam Backup & Replication places tapes to one of the media pools. For more information, see Loading Tapes.