How to View Tape Contents

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Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2007

If you find a tape that you cannot identify and are uncertain what to do with it, view the contents.

When viewing the contents, you can copy the data that is on the tape to disk by clicking Copy in the tape contents dialog box. Using the Copy option is useful when you cannot use DPM to recover the data from the tape, such as when data spanned two tapes and only one tape can now be located.

To view tape contents

  1. In DPM Administrator Console, click Management on the navigation bar.

  2. Click the Libraries tab, and then select the tape to view.

  3. In the Actions pane, click View tape contents.

To view the tapes associated with a protection group

  1. In DPM Administrator Console, click Protection on the navigation bar.

  2. In the Display pane, click a protection group.

  3. In the Actions pane, click View tape list.