The Media interface displays a tree structure of pools, and under each pool branch, are items representing the volumes in the pool. The display shows data that are the values in the database for each volume. With this interface, the user can manage tape volumes and file volumes.
The context sensitive menu allows the user to open up other interfaces and to perform commands in the console that may be run with the desired media having been identified. These commands include deleting the volume, purging the jobs and files backed up on the volume from the catalog, and pruning the jobs and files on the catalog that meet the selection criterion configured in bacula-dir.conf. There is also a command to reset the parameters on the volumes based on the parameters of the pool resource.
Other interfaces can be opened up from the context sensitive menu. The user may open up a JobList interface. This interface is opened with the media drop down control preselected This shows jobs that have been written to the volume. The user can open up the Relabel a Volume dialog box. The user can also open up the Edit a Volume interface which allows the user to modify all user editable data items for the volume.