Arkeia Hardware Management

Arkeia needs to know about the hardware it can use for backup and restore operations. Select the hardware elements in the navigator panel at the left to define or change your hardware in Arkeia.

Tapes

Details of individual tapes and the data they contain are kept on the Arkeia backup server. Click on
Where to backup > Backup to tape > Tapes
to add, delete or modify your tapes in Arkeia.

Tape drives

Click on
Where to backup > Backup to tape > Tape drives
to add, modify or remove a tape drive.

Arkeia controls tape drives attached to:

Tape Libraries

Tape libraries, also known as jukeboxes or tape changers, are peripheral devices which hold a number of tapes and tape drives in a single physical unit. They have an automatic changer to remove and place tapes in the tape drives, so provide a large amount of accessible data storage space. They allow backup tasks which span more than one tape to be completely automated by changing tapes when required by the backup or restore job.


Note

To use a tape library with Arkeia Network Backup, you need a separate license. Contact Arkeia Sales to obtain a tape library license.


Arkeia supports a more than 600 backup devices, a full list can be found on our web page Compatibility