Remove Media; Reserving Slots; Backups And Rotation Types - HP BB118BV - StorageWorks Data Protector Express Package User Manual

This job is used to remove media so that it can be ejected from a mail slot and is no longer available for
other jobs. If you use the tape library front panel to eject media, the Data Protector Express catalog will
not know the media is no longer available and will display an error message if a job tries to use it.
In some cases, you may have media in a tape library that you do not wish Data Protector Express to use.
To achieve this, media can be marked as reserved. The reserved state can be set by the user on any storage
slot. To access it, right click on a slot, choose Element Status and set it to Reserved.
If the tape library is used by two applications (Data Protector Express and another application),
Data Protector Express will not use tapes that have already been used by the other application, but you
could use this function to mark unused tape as reserved.

Backups and Rotation Types

The main advantage of using Data Protector Express with tape libraries is the ease with which you can
schedule different backups for different days of the week/month/year. Use the appropriate backup wizard
to create your backup job, as described earlier in this guide (page ref?).
When you get to the Schedule Job step, select a Schedule type of Run repeatedly. You are then able to
select a Rotation type and set up run parameters.
The selected rotation type depends on your business requirements for retaining data. A popular choice is
the GFS type (Grandfather-Father-Son), which allows you to set up a rotating schedule with different
retention policies for daily, weekly, monthly and annual backups.