Solutions for Overcrowded Tape Libraries

Are SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, or SAP backups filling your tape library?

Does it take too long to copy your TDP Data?

Challenges Facing TSM Administrators

Using a Tivoli Data Protection (TDP) Agent to backup large client databases (like SQL Server, Oracle and SAP) can quickly use a lot of storage in your tape library.  Duplicating this data to a copypool daily can significantly delay your daily vaulting.

Solutions with AutoVAULT

AutoVAULT enables you to take your initial client database backups offsite, freeing expensive tape library slots and eliminating the time and media to duplicate the data.   With reliable tape technology, this can be a very valuable technique.

Or you may prefer to duplicate your TDP data to a copy pool for offsite vaulting. Using AutoVAULT's multi-vault support, you can still vault the TDP media to an onsite vault, freeing expensive tape library slots. 

How does it work

You have a 150 GB SQL Server database and take full backups of it daily using a TDP agent.  Your user wants to keep 14 copies for recovery.  Using other vaulting methods, you would have to copy all this data to a second series of tapes.  This process can take a long time especially if you are doing this for multiple servers.  If your backup fits on two tapes for example, you will have 14 times or 28 tapes filling your onsite tape library.

Using AutoVAULT, you would direct your TDP backup data to a separate primary tape pool.  Configure AutoVAULT to send that one primary pool offsite and it will automatically eject those tapes from your library daily.  AutoVAULT will report when to bring the empty tapes back too.  No need to wait hours copying the data.  No need to buy a larger, more expensive tape library to hold the tapes onsite.  

What do you lose

The only thing you lose is a second set of tapes to fall back to in case of media failure.  For many customers, there is not enough time in the day to copy all the data.  As long as these customers find their tape technology to be very reliable, this is a comfortable solution where the gain outweighs the risk.

What will you gain

You will gain back expensive tape library slots, tape media, and time, since you will no longer need to duplicate the data.

New! Control when tapes are vaulted
AutoVAULT can now restrict primary pool media vaulting to only eject FULL media and/or media that has not been referenced for a specific number of days.  Both options can be specified individually or combined.  This allows you to remove long term data, such as archives, from your library when the media is full and vault it to an onsite vault location.

If your large client databases are presenting challenges to your backup solution, and you own reliable tape technology, consider vaulting your initial client database backups with AutoVAULT!

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