HP B6960-90078 manual Configuring Vaults, Moving Media to a Vault, Restoring from Media in a Vault

Managing Media

Vaulting Media

4.Select the media that you want to store in the vault, change the location of the media, eject the media, and store them in the vault.

5.Select the media that you want to remove from the vault, such as media with expired data protection. You can get a list of such media using the List of Media report. For how to generate this report, see “Running Individual Reports” on page 338.

6.Enter the media into the library, scan them, and then change the location field.

7.Establish the appropriate media maintenance policy for media in the vault.

Configuring Vaults

Data Protector allows you to create a list of pre-defined vault locations that you often use. This simplifies entering locations when you move media to the vault.

In the Devices & Media context, click Locations from the Edit menu. For detailed steps, refer to the online Help index keyword “configuring lists of vaults”.

Moving Media to a Vault

Depending on your company’s policies, you can move the original media to a vault directly, or you can create copies and move the copies.

Moving media to a vault consists of two steps:

1.Select media that you want to move and change the location for the media. See “Modifying Media Locations” on page 126.

2.Eject the media from the device and move them to the vault. See “Ejecting a Medium from a Device” on page 137.

Restoring from Media in a Vault

Restoring media from a vault is no different from restoring from any other media. Depending on how your data and catalog protection policies are defined, you may need to take some additional steps:

1. Identify the media needed for restore.

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