Integrated VTL
Under Select a VTL
is a list of VTLs
available. Highlight a VTL to display its properties.
You can add your own VTLs, and change or delete them as you need.
Properties
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Name
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The name given to this VTL.
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Owner
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The login name of the person who created this VTL.
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Media server
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The media server on which the VTL is located.
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Path
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The filepath to the VTL. A VTL occupies a directory on the media
server and only one VTL is allowed per directory.
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Capacity (MB)
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The size in MB of the VTL. The combined size of this, and any other
VTLs, must not be greater than the size allowed by your license.
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Space used (MB)
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Displays how much space in the VTL is currently occupied by backup
data sets.
Advanced properties
- Parallelism
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The maximum number of processes allowed to read or write data at the
same time, from or to the VTL. Your license determines the maximum
number of drives. and so the maximum number of parallel data flows
possible. For example, if the main license allows 2 drives, and
parallelism is set to 3, a job that writes to disk can use at most two
data flows simultaneously.
- Automatic disk-to-tape
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This feature enables the automatic migration of data from the VTL disk
to tape, which will be triggered by criteria you select:
- an amount of VTL space used,
- an amount of space remaining in the VTL, or
- the current date and time.
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The first two criteria will trigger the automatic movement of backup
data sets from the VTL to tape storage when the storage space occupied
or left in the VTL reaches the specified level. The last criterion
will move the data from the VTL to tape at a given date and time.
Add a new VTL
Click on Add a new VTL
in the actions menu, and enter the
properties to create a new VTL.
To activate Automatic disk-to-tape in a new VTL, after it is created,
highlight the VTL in the Select a VTL
list and click on
Modify...
in the actions menu.
Modify...
Click on the name of the VTL you want to modify in the Select a
VTL
list, then click on Modify
in the actions
menu. Some VTL's properties can be changed here, particularly the
Automatic disk-to-tape configuration.
Automatic disk-to-tape
Before automatic disk-to-tape can be activated, there must be a
disk-to-tape setup available on the backup server. To create a new
setup, in the navigation tree at the left click on Where to backup
> Disk-to-Tape > Disk-to-Tape setup
, then click on
Add Disk-to-tape setup
in the actions menu.
To activate automatic disk-to-tape for a VTL, click on
Modify...
then select Yes
in the
Automatic Disk-to-Tape:
field.
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Disk-To-Tape setup
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Select a setup from the drop list. Only setups saved on the same media
server as the VTL will be displayed.
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Used space...
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VTL data storage space occupied by current backup data sets.
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Remaining space...
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VTL data storage space NOT occupied by current backup data sets.
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If the condition above occurs, then migrate:
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Select which backup data set on the VTL should be transferred:
- oldest
- the backup data set with the earliest launch data.
- next to expire
- the backup data set with the next validity date.
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delete
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will remove the compliant backup data set(s) from the VTL to
reduce the space used to the amount or percentage in the next field.
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do not delete
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will leave the compliant backup data set(s) on the VTL unless the
space used is more than the amount or percentage in the next
field.
Remove...
This deletes the highlighted VTL.
Backup list for...
Display a table of backup data sets currently stored in the
highlighted VTL.
- Backup type
- Can be:
- BKP: a common backup data set
- NDMP: a NDMP backup data set
- D2T: a Disk-To-Tape data set
- Savepack
- The Savepack contained in this backup data set.
- Size
- The size (in MB) of this backup data set.
- Backup date
- The date and time at which the backup job was started.
- Retention date
- After this date, Arkeia may overwrite the highlighted backup data set.
Recycle space
The backup data set highlighted in the table will be recycled
when this item in the actions menu is clicked. It will be removed from
the list of backup data sets stored in this VTL, and space it occupies
can be overwritten with a new backup data set.