Step 1. Launch New Media Pool Wizard

To run the New Media Pool wizard:

  1. Open the Tape Infrastructure view and click Add Media Pool on the ribbon. Alternatively, you can open the Tape Infrastructure view, right-click the Media Pools node and choose Add Media Pool.
  2. Select Standard if you want to create a media pool for standard tapes or WORM if you want to create a media pool for WORM (Write Once Read Many) tapes.

Tip

You can also launch the New Media Pool wizard when configuring tape jobs (that is, directly from the New Backup to Tape Job wizard and New File to Tape Job wizard. For more information, see Creating Backup to Tape Jobs and Creating File to Tape Jobs.