Release Note для Spectra Logic spectra t120
User Guide Updates — BlueScale Media Lifecycle Management
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Media Lifecycle Management Best Practices
To effectively use BlueScale Media Lifecycle Management (MLM) and
ensure data protection, plan a strategy based on your data center needs
and develop policies and procedures to support that strategy. Having
sound management policies and procedures, as well as having the
appropriate staff, are essential for consistent, effective implementation.
ensure data protection, plan a strategy based on your data center needs
and develop policies and procedures to support that strategy. Having
sound management policies and procedures, as well as having the
appropriate staff, are essential for consistent, effective implementation.
As you prepare to implement Media Lifecycle Management in your
environment, consider the following best practices:
Identify the people on your site who are responsible for backing up
environment, consider the following best practices:
Identify the people on your site who are responsible for backing up
data. They will be responsible for implementing lifecycle management
procedures.
procedures.
Identify the users who will have responsibilities that involve MLM.
It may be wise to have more than a single user familiar with policies,
depending on the size of your organization, so that if one person is not
available, another can take over.
depending on the size of your organization, so that if one person is not
available, another can take over.
Be consistent with partition names. Spectra’s suggested naming
practice is to list the location, followed by the library name, followed by
the backup software. For example, Dallas/T380/Netbackup.
the backup software. For example, Dallas/T380/Netbackup.
On an organizational level, determine the level of management your
media requires. For example, you may choose to use Spectra’s
guidelines for retirement for all media, or you may choose to retire
tapes that hold financial or legal data sooner than recommended.
guidelines for retirement for all media, or you may choose to retire
tapes that hold financial or legal data sooner than recommended.
Consider the following guidelines when establishing your Media
Lifecycle Management polices:
Choose a retirement guideline to use at startup. Spectra suggests
Lifecycle Management polices:
Choose a retirement guideline to use at startup. Spectra suggests
using the Media Lifecycle Management health icon, visible on the
MLM Reports screen (
MLM Reports screen (
) and on detail screen for
each tape, to assess the overall health of individual tapes. See
information about using the health icon to assess media health.
Figure 30 The Media Lifecycle Management Report screen.
Media health
icon