Automigration Media Life Cycle - HP StorageWorks 12000 - Virtual Library System EVA Gateway Manual

Figure 62 Automigration Media Life Cycle
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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
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
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Figure 62, which illustrates the stages in the life cycle