Chapter 6 - Media Lifecycle Management; Bluescale Media Lifecycle Management Overview - Spectra Logic T-Series Spectra T200 User Manual

This chapter describes how to use BlueScale Media Lifecycle Management
to proactively monitor the health of media in your library.
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This section provides an overview of how BlueScale Media Lifecycle
Management (MLM) works in your library. See
Management on page 122
Media Tracking and Reporting Media Lifecycle Management records
30 data points every time a tape is loaded, giving you vital statistical and
diagnostic information that helps you proactively manage your tape media
throughout its life. BlueScale Media Lifecycle Management (MLM)
provides media tracking and reporting that lets you review data about
every MLM-compatible tape and cleaning cartridge in your library and
generate reports about media health. You can generate summary reports
with a health overview for the media in the whole library or an individual
partition or you can generate more detailed reports with information about
compression ratios, load counts, write errors, encryption status, and more.
You can also view detailed information about individual cartridges.
BlueScale MLM reporting helps you identify tapes with high error rates or
other problems (for example, a dropped leader). These tapes can then be
removed before they cause data corruption. Use BlueScale reporting to
help identify damaged tapes and dirty tape heads.
Media Lifecycle Management

BlueScale Media Lifecycle Management Overview

Configuring Media Lifecycle Management on page 118
Media Lifecycle Management Best Practices on page 120
Using Media Lifecycle Management
Getting Started Using MLM on page 123
Media Lifecycle Management Best Practices on page 120
Generating Media Lifecycle Management Reports on page 125
Saving an MLM Report on page 127
Backing Up the MLM Database on page 129
Verify the MLM Database Backup on page 131
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Chapter 6
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for detailed information about using MLM.
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Using Media Lifecycle