How to distribute RMAN backup among tape volumes in OSB

Hi Guys,
I would like to ask some information about OSB. I have finally set up our Oracle Secure Backup 10.3.0.3.0 and initial OSB backup to tape is good using our test environment.
Now, our production servers has the following details:
Serv01
- Oracle Database 11.1.0.7
- Windows Server 2003 R2
- Current RMAN backup to disk full (level 0) is at 2TB.
Serv02
- this is our media server for OSB and we manage from here all other servers that we would like OSB to be implemented.
-Windows Server 2003 R2
- We have IBM tape library here with four drives
- Our tape volumes are 480GB each (compressed) we about 50 of them.
-Each tape volume has barcodes and our library has barcode reader
How can I group certain tapes (as a media family?) and use them for our level 0 backup. As you know, one tape cannot hold our level 0 backup so we need at least 5 tape volumes to hold our level 0 backup. Is there a step by step process of doing this? Or does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks and I would really appreciate your thoughts about this.

Yes, media families (like tape pools) are used to group backups on tape. Using a database backup storage selector, you set-up media policy so OSB will automatically select appropriate storage when for the backup per your settings. You may want to refer to this white paper which discusses media management:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/secure-backup/learnmore/osb-103-twp-166804.pdf
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