Buffalo Surveillance Server Administrator's Manual page 128

128 Buffalo Surveillance Server
If you enter a new name for a Vault, the Media Name and Storage Pool options will be
limited to <any> or <unnamed> and <new entry>.
Media Name
Media Name refers to the names of individual units of media in the Vaults of your Information
Repository.
Click the pull-down control arrow and, from the list that appears, select the media; or, select
<new entry> to add a new media name. The Buffalo Surveillance Server will then
automatically look for the Storage Pools that comprise the media. If the Buffalo Surveillance
Server cannot find storage pools that comprise the media that you have selected, the Storage
Pool field will display <any>.
Storage Pool
Storage Pools are groupings of media utilized for a particular purpose. A typical example of
storage pooling is the utilization of several units of media for a single policy. For example, if you
want to have the "Monday night backup" write to several units of media, you would use a
"Monday night backup" storage pool and assign to it every unit of media that you want to use
for that purpose. (See Prepare Media, Storage Pool for information about creating storage
pools using Vault Admin.)
Click the pull-down control arrow and, from the list that appears, select a storage pool; or,
select <new entry> to add a new storage pool name.
Media Type
You can determine the types of media your policy will use by specifying a media type. For
example, if "Hdisk" is an option and you select it, only Hdisk media will be utilized. This setting
is useful for processing data of lower importance or less rigorous recovery time objectives.
You can set either Media Type or Media Speed but not both.
Although only Hdisk media will be used, the names displayed in the other fields will not
change.
Click the pull-down control arrow under the Media Type label, and select the media type.
Only the media types that are available for the parameters you have chosen in the Vault,
Media Name, or Storage Pool fields will be displayed. If no Vault, media, or storage pool is
chosen, only the media types from media available within the Information Repository will be
displayed.