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

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

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

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

•Filtering of media from the media view based on specific criteria.

Implementing vaulting

The implementation of vaulting depends on your company’s backup strategy and policies for handling data and media. Generally, it consists of the following steps:

1.Specifying the desired data protection and catalog protection policies when configuring backup specifications.

2.Configuring a vault in Data Protector. Essentially, this means specifying a name for the vault you will use for media, for example: Vault_1.

3.Establishing the appropriate media maintenance policy for media in the vault.

4.Optionally, creating additional copies of the backed up data for vaulting purposes, using the object mirror functionality during backup, or the object copy or media copy functionality after backup.

5.Selecting the media you want to store in a vault, ejecting the media and storing it in the vault.

6.Selecting the media with expired data which is in a vault and inserting the media in a library.

Vaulting usage example

Your company backup policy, for example, says that you must back up data daily. Each week a full backup must be stored in a vault where it must be available for the next five years. You must be able to easily restore data from all the previous year’s backups stored in the vault. After five years, media from the vault can be re-used.

This implies the following Data Protector settings: a full backup once a week with daily incrementals. Data protection is set to five years. Catalog protection is set to one year. Therefore, you will be able to simply browse and restore data for one year and the data will be available for restore from media for five years. Media from the full backup are copied and stored to a vault. After one year, Data Protector automatically deletes detailed information from the IDB about the data on the media, thus creating more space in the database for new information.

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