Basic Vaulting Policy Concepts; Vaulting Templates - HP Data Protector A.06.11 User Manual

• Vaulting Policies for Consolidation Media. For any media belonging to Backup
Managers that support consolidation operations (such as Data Protector A.06.11),
you can define different vaulting policies (at site, pool, backup specification, and
system levels of the policy hierarchy).
For example, in pool AB_PROD, you can set Policy1 as the primary policy for
that pool, and Policy2 as the policy for consolidation media. Media used for
backups then have Policy1, and consolidation media have Policy2. If you
do not define a consolidation policy to an object in the hierarchy, the primary
policy is applied to consolidations.
• Single Pieces of Medium. In the Edit Media window, you can override the vaulting
policy set by the hierarchy. While that override is in place, media are protected
from any policy changes.

Basic vaulting policy concepts

Vaulting policies consist of a series of vaulting cycles. Each cycle defines when and
where to move used media. Vaulting cycles then combine in a time-based scheme
controlling media progress through scheduled vaulting locations.
Typical vaulting locations include a vault in the media home site, a vault in another
site on the same server, or an offsite vendor location. Select a location based on
how secure and protected against a disaster media should be and how quickly you
may need to retrieve them.

Vaulting templates

Media Operations uses templates as a framework for creating active vaulting policies
in each site. Templates define one or more vaulting cycles, but locations inside each
cycle are not final because these are site-specific. For example, a vaulting cycle in
a template that defines the media to be moved to an offsite vendor does not have
the offsite vendor and account defined because these are different for each site.
The following vaulting templates are pre-defined:
No Vaulting, Low Media Security: Medium stays in the device until it is scratched.
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• Onsite Vaulting, Low Media Security: Medium stays in the device for seven days
and is also kept in an onsite vault until it expires.
Onsite Vaulting, Medium Media Security: Medium is not retained in the device.
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It is kept in an onsite vault until it expires.
• Fast Recovery Access, Low Media Security: Medium is retained in the device and
in an onsite vault for seven days. It is kept in an offsite vault until it expires.
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