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Manage Data and the Information Repository: Data Service Policies and Vault Admin
Field
Description
Storage Pool
Size (GB) - available only
for hard disk media; not
available for tape media
Content Searching
Description
Barcode systems provide a significant performance
increase whenever media is being loaded,
unloaded, or indexed by the Information Repository.
This description is used on all media-referencing
interfaces and reports. It is best to carry forward the
naming convention used for the Media Name. For
example, "Monday night job, tape 1 of 5", could be a
good description for a tape named "Monday-1."
Storage pools enable you to group disparate units of
media. Used properly, storage pools offer a convenient
way to accommodate multiple jobs simultaneously and,
by providing fail-over should a problem occur during a
process, prevent incomplete processing. A typical
example of storage pooling is the utilization of several
units of media (which may reside in several different
Vaults) together for use by a single policy. For example, if
you want to have the "Monday night backup" write to
several units of media, you would create a "Monday night
backup" storage pool and assign to it every unit of media
that you want to use for that purpose. To assign a unit of
media to a storage pool, select a storage pool from the
pull-down list or enter the name of the storage pool (for
example, Monday night backup).
This value defines the amount of storage space you want
to make available for the Information Repository on the
given unit of media. It enables you to limit how much
physical space on a single hard disk the Information
Repository will use. For example, if the given unit of
media has a physical capacity of 100 GB, you can limit
the amount available to the Information Repository to,
say, 50 GB by entering 50. If you enter a value greater
than the amount of space actually available, Buffalo
Surveillance Server will nevertheless recognize and use
only as much space as is physically available.
This feature enables you to search the content of files in
the Information Repository. With this feature activated,
you can run content specific searches. For example, you
can find all content containing the phrase "1Q2006." If not
selected, you will not be able to search for content in your
Information Repository. Enabling this feature will increase
the size of your metadata catalogs.
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