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To change the settings of the backup policy/plan to be created click Change… in the Backup options
section on the Create backup policy/plan page. It opens the Backup options window where the Tape
support page is contained with the pre-defined values.
When backing up to a tape and the end of the tape is reached, a free tape will be mounted
automatically and the operation will continue onto the new tape.
While a backup task is running, the following tape-specific information is accessible from the console:
number of tapes currently used by the backup operation
labels of the tapes used by the task up to the current time in case of backup splitting
label of the tape that is currently written.
Recovering from tape library
Data recovery from archives located on tape devices is performed in the same way as with other
storage devices.
When recovering, you start creating a recovery task, select the tape device vault, and select the
archive and the backup to recover data from. At task creation, the program uses the storage node
database instead of accessing tapes. However, selection of data to recover (e.g. some files or specific
volumes) requires reading of one or more tapes, so it might be durational.
The program finds the tapes and inserts them automatically in the right order. The Task Need
Interaction window comes up if a required tape is not found.
Keep in mind that a data recovery operation may require access to a number of tapes. For example,
data recovery from an incremental backup commonly might require loading, mounting, rewinding
and reading of the following tapes containing the data backups:
tapes storing the incremental backup selected to recover the data
tapes storing the last full backup created before the selected incremental one
tapes storing the last differential backup created after the last full backup but before the
selected incremental one if necessary
tapes containing all incremental backups created after the last full or differential backups before
the selected incremental one if necessary.
While a recovery task is running, the following tape-specific information is accessible from the
management console:
labels of all the tapes that may be required for the operation
label of the tape that is currently being read
labels of the tapes that have already been read
labels of tapes that are still waiting to be read with information of their current availability
(loaded or not).
4.1.3.6
Managing a tape library
To manage a tape library the following tasks/procedures are in the product:
Inventory (p. 149)
Rescan (p. 149)
Labeling (p. 150)
