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Figure 37 Automigration Media Life Cycle
This section presents an example, in which a user who works for Company X did everything
described in the previous section to set up automigration. See
The numbered list that follows coincides with
the life cycle of automigration virtual and physical media.
1.
The user selects Load Blank Media in the GUI to load media into the destination library.
Automigration automatically creates virtual cartridges with matching header information in
the source virtual library.
2.
Scheduled backups run to the virtual cartridges in the VLS.
3.
During the echo copy window, automigration creates physical copies of the virtual cartridges.
4.
The echo copy window ends. One of the following methods is used to eject the physical tapes:
The backup application.
The automigration tab in the GUI.
The library front panel GUI.
Manual eject on the physical library.
The ejected tapes from the destination library are transported off-site. Company X has a policy
of sending physical tapes off-site for 30 days. When the physical tapes are ejected from the
destination library, the matching virtual cartridges are automatically moved to the device's
firesafe where they are retained for as long as the user established in the automigration
policies. The user in this example set the retention time for seven days. Therefore, if there is
a need to do a restore within the 7–day retention period, the user can simply move a cartridge
from the firesafe, and use the backup application to do the restore. When the seven-day
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"Automigration Setup" (page
Figure 37 (page
82), which illustrates the stages in
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