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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 will be unable to decrypt encrypted data
without the encryption keys.
You will need to completely reconfigure your library.
You will lose stored data about your media that will be time-consuming to
recover.
Creates...
A time‐stamped zip file containing the library configuration, the MLM and DLM
databases, and any stored BlueScale encryption keys. 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 122 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 142 for
information about using this method to back up the library configuration, the
MLM and DLM databases, and any stored BlueScale encryption keys.
Note: The Auto Configuration Save feature does not automatically create a
backup when you make other configuration changes to the library.
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