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Appendix A — Best Practices
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To ensure the availability of your library and encrypted data, protect
library metadata by following the procedures described in this section.
Library metadata includes library configuration data, the MLM and DLM
databases, and all BlueScale encryption key‐related data.
Having reliable backups of the library metadata is very important in the
case of disaster recovery and other situations where you need to restore the
library.
Losing your library's metadata can have catastrophic effects — as can losing keys in
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any encryption key management system, especially when related to encrypted
data. If you lose all copies of all metadata:
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Back Up the Library Metadata

Use the following methods to create backup copies of all of your library's
metadata. The following table shows the file names and locations of the
data saved during each type of backup operation.
This backup
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Auto Configuration
Save Option
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Note: The DLM database is included in any operations that backup or
restore the MLM database.
Your encrypted data is lost — you are unable to decrypt encrypted data without
the encryption keys.
You need to completely reconfigure your library.
You lose stored data about your media that is time-consuming to recover.
Creates...
A time‐stamped zip file containing the library configuration, the MLM
database, and the DLM database. The file is stored on the memory card in the
LCM and can be sent as an email attachment to a previously configured mail
recipient. The zip file is named <date-time>cfg.zip, where <date-time>
is the time stamp for when the zip file was created.
 See Enable Email for the Auto Configuration Save File on page 109 for
information about configuring the Auto Configuration Save feature so that
the library automatically sends an email with the current Auto Configuration
Save file to a pre‐configured mail recipient once a week and whenever you
create or modify a library partition.
 See Use Automatic Backup of the Library Configuration on page 137 for
information about using this method to back up the library configuration and
the MLM and DLM databases.
Note: The Auto Configuration Save feature does not automatically create a
backup when you make other configuration changes to the library.
Back Up and Protect the Library Metadata
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