Tape pools

For each backup configuration, you can create a Tape pool to which you add a stock of physical (or virtual) tapes. During a backup job, if the current tape is filled, the next available tape from the Tape pool is requested, or loaded if a tape library is being used, and the job continues.

When all the backups on a filled tape are older than a date you have specified (called the validity date), Arkeia recycles the tape either back into its original Tape pool for reuse by jobs of the same backup configuration, or into the Scratch pool, for use by any backup job.

Scratch pool

If all the tapes in the specified tape pool are filled, and the backup job still has data to store, Arkeia will select a tape from the scratch pool, which is a permanent Tape pool available to all backup jobs.