BackBox H4.00 VTC Scripting Option

Introduction
2 BackBox H4.00 VTC Scripting Option
Scripts in VTCs
Scripts are available for the Data Store type “WINDISK” for which the VTC Tape
Emulator stores two MS-Windows disk files per virtual volume:
- A small index file containing metadata (file name *.IND).
- A variable length data file, whose size is based on the current content of
the volume (file name *.DAT).
Scripts send virtual volumes to a back-end Enterprise backup infrastructure in order
to:
- Have additional copies of virtual volumes for safety.
- Free-up the on-line storage, moving the virtual volumes to a cheaper storage
for long term archiving.
Scripts move forth and back these two files from the MS-Windows file system to the
back-end storage by any mean implemented by MS-Windows command scripts.
A script could move disk files to a remote NAS server by a simple Windows command
“copy source-file, target-file”, but in most production environments the MS-Windows
files are saved by the Windows command line client of an Enterprise backup
infrastructure.
The VTC triggers one execution of script per volume to process, providing
parameters such as the files to process and some contextual volume attributes.