HP B6960-90078 manual Vaulting Media, 140

Managing Media

Vaulting Media

Vaulting Media

What Is Vaulting? Vaulting is a process of moving media with important information to a safe place where they are kept for a specified period of time. The safe place for media is often called a vault. This is also known as off-site storage.

Vaulting and Data Data Protector supports vaulting on various levels:

Protector

•Allows setting up of data protection and catalog protection policies.

•Allows easy selection and ejection of media from the library.

•The media location function tells you the physical location where the media are stored.

•A report shows media used for backup within a specified time frame.

•A report shows which backup specifications have used specified media during the backup.

•A report shows media stored at a specific location with data protection expiring at a specific time.

•Displays a list of media needed for a restore and the physical locations where the media are stored.

•Allows filtering of media from the media view based on specific criteria, such as time written to the media or media with expired protection.

Implementing How you implement vaulting depends on your company’s backup

Vaultingstrategy and policies for handling data and media. Generally, it consists of the following steps:

1.Specify the desired data protection and catalog protection policies when configuring the backup of data.

2.Configure a vault in Data Protector. Essentially, this means specifying a name for the vault that you will use for the media, such as Vault_1.

3.After a backup is done, copy the media, if desired. You can use either manually started or automated media copying. For more details, refer to “Copying Media” on page 143.

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