Buffalo Surveillance Server, Administrator'S Manual

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Manage Data and the Information Repository: Data Service Policies and Vault Admin 251
Add New Vaults or Media On the Fly
You can increase automatic fail-over performance with a more flexible Information Repository
design that eliminates the possibility of a single point of failure. For example, you can move
media freely between Vaults of the same type, so if a tape is taken out of one Vault and
inserted into another, the Information Repository will automatically locate the data without being
notified of the move. If a tape library is getting full, a second library can be brought online
seamlessly. Half of the new tapes can be inserted into the older library, and half of its full tapes
can be inserted into the new library. The result is a balanced Information Repository with two
libraries that are accessible to the network.
If there is more than one Vault available, clients can divide use of the available Vaults.
They can also fail-over to other Vaults should a Vault fail. The same logic applies even if
there is more than a single tape-based Vault containing tapes with the same label (for
example, "Monday Incremental").
Follow the steps in the sections listed below to load, reload, or re-index media:
Load Hard Disk Media
Load Tape Media
Reload Media
Load Hard Disk Media
You can load media only to existing Vaults. If you have not yet added Vaults, you can do so
using the
Add or Remove Vault Wizard .
In the left frame of the Vault Admin main window, click in front of the Vault into
which you wish to load media.
Click (and highlight) .
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