Chapter 12 - Maintaining the BlackPearl System
Data Integrity Verification - Tape Media
D
ATA
I
NTEGRITY
V
ERIFICATION
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APE
M
EDIA
The BlackPearl system automatically performs data integrity verification for any tape
cartridge that is unchanged for the number of days specified in a given storage domain. See
Create a Storage Domain on page 118
for more information.
The BlackPearl user interface also allows you to perform an on-demand data integrity
verification on any data tape cartridge present in the tape library connected to the system.
Performing a data integrity verification on a tape cartridge is useful when you want to
ensure the data on the tape is stored correctly. Spectra Logic recommends verifying any tape
you plan to export from your BlackPearl system and store off-site.
You can configure the system to verify the entire tape, or a specified percentage of the total
reported capacity of the tape cartridge. If you specify a percentage, the system starts the
scan the specified percentage of the tape capacity before the EOD (End of Data) marker and
ends the scan at the EOD marker. This is useful when you only want to validate the most
recent data written to the tape. See
Configure the Spectra S3 Service on page 183
for more
information.
You can select to verify a single specified tape cartridge, or to verify all tape cartridges
using a single operation.
Notes:
• If there are cleaning tapes present in a data partition, they display on the Tape
Management screen. However, it is not possible to individually verify a
cleaning tape, and cleaning tapes do not undergo data integrity verification if
you opt to verify all tapes in a single operation.
• Cleaning tapes in cleaning partitions are not processed by data integrity
verification.
Use the instruction in this section to verify data on tape media.
1.
From the menu bar, select
Status > Tape Management.
The Tape Management screen
displays.
Figure 244
The Tape Management screen.
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