If you need to create space on your archive media, use one or more of the options described in the table below. For recommendations for limiting the amount of space you are using on cloud archive storage, see Reducing your storage footprint on the cloud. For more about managing space on your archive media, see Managing space on archive media.
Option for decreasing storage footprint |
Description |
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Purge sets |
Purging deletes sets with expired retention to create enough space for the current job. This option creates only enough space to complete the current job. For details, see Purge. |
Overwrite sets |
Overwrite deletes all sets on the media and replaces them with the sets in the current job. Overwrite occurs only if all sets on the media have exceeded their retention settings.For details, see Overwrite. |
Delete all sets using the Prepare option |
Preparing media deletes all sets regardless of retention settings. For instructions, see Preparing archive media. |