HP B6960-90078 manual Copying Media

Managing Media

Copying Media

	Copying Media
What Is Media	Data Protector enables copying of backed up data to a second set of
Copying?	media. You can move either the copies or the original media to a safe
	place for archiving/vaulting purposes, and keep the other set of media on
	site for restore purposes. For how to configure Data Protector for
	vaulting, see “Vaulting Media” on page 140. For more information on
	vaulting, refer to the HP OpenView Storage Data Protector Concepts
	Guide.
	Besides manually started media copying, Data Protector also offers
	automated media copying. For more information, see “Automated Media
	Copying” on page 145.
How to Copy	In the Devices & Media context, browse for a medium, right-click it and
Media	click Copy. For detailed steps, refer to the online Help index keyword
	“copying media”.
	You need two devices with the same media type, one as a source
	medium, one as a target medium. A source medium is the medium
	being copied, while a target medium is the medium to which data is
	copied.
	You can specify the protection period for the target medium, during
	which the data on the medium cannot be overwritten. The default
	protection is the same as for the original. Other options are Permanent
	and Until (specified date). A medium is protected until the end of the
	longest protection period of one of the objects on the medium.
	You need to start the copying of each medium separately, as only one
	medium can be copied in a copying session. The copy operation is not
	available for media in free pools.
What Is the	The result of copying media is that you have two sets of media with the
Result?	same data, the original media and the copies.
	After the source medium has been copied, Data Protector marks it as
	non-appendable to prevent appending new backups. (This would result
	in the original being different from its copy.) The copy is also marked as
	non-appendable.
	You can make multiple copies of the original media. You cannot,
	however, make copies of copies, also known as second generation copies.

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