Patent ID: 8924428

Claim:
A method of importing a physical data storage media component to a data storage media library, the method comprising: receiving an indication of one or more changes made to a set of data within a file system; determining one or more physical media components containing sets of data related to the changed set of data in the file system; recalling to the data storage library the one or more physical media components containing the sets of data related to the changed set of data in the file system, wherein the recalling includes automatically recalling the one or more physical media components from a location physically outside of the data storage media library; and performing an action with the recalled one or more physical media components, wherein the action is performed in response to the changes made to the set of data within the file system; and predicting a need for a file system resource; wherein the recalled one or more physical media components contain information related to the needed file system resource, wherein the information related to the needed file system resource includes remaining capacity of the recalled one or more physical media components.