Replace old tape

[aruns_s]

We are using DP for backups. Due to the usgae of very old medias, some of our backup jobs started to fail.I have managed to get some new medias. What I would like to do is to replace old medias.What is the proceedure to use a new tape in data protector? I believe it needs to be initialized.. Please advice.

Many thanks

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You can run the omniminit command from the shell or ou can use the GUI->Devices & Media to initialize the media and add it to a Media Pool. Man omniminit for details.

[aruns_s]

Thanks for the reply.
I can't find an option to initialize the tape.Man pages for omnimiinit are not available

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Spelling counts; it's omniminit so "man omniinit".

From memory but is should be close:
omniminit -init My_Drive My_Label -pool MyPool [-slot 3]

In any event, you should be able to (again from memory) from the xomni GUI -> Devices & Media -> Media -> Pools

Select a pool then
Actions -> Format