Virtual TapeServer 8.2 Configuration Guide
Table Of Contents
- Virtual TapeServer for NonStop Servers Configuration Guide
- Preface
- Introduction
- Overview of Tasks
- Reconfiguring Vaults
- Enabling Licensed Features
- Configuring Ports
- Creating and Managing VTLs and VTDs
- Enabling and Performing Tape-to-tape Exports
- Enabling and Performing Stacked Exports
- Enabling and Configuring Data Replication
- Enabling and Configuring Role Swapping
- Configuring EMS Communication
- Enabling and Configuring Data Encryption
- Creating and Managing Virtual Media
- Enabling and Configuring Scan/Cleanup
- Configuring User Accounts
- Configuring Web Interface Preferences
- Managing the VTS Server
- Troubleshooting
- Maintaining GFS for VTS
- Reinstalling and Restoring VTS
- Attaching External Devices after Initial Deployment
- TCP/IP Ports and Protocols
- Index
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Enabling and Performing Tape-to-tape Exports
You can export a virtual tape to physical tape using a tape-to-tape export job. This provides a
one-to-one mapping of virtual to physical tape. You can export to a drive in a library or a
standalone drive. When creating the tape-to-tape export job, you can choose whether the data
remains in virtual tape format or host format.
To encrypt data that is exported:
• Enable Data Encryption and select an encrypted virtual tape for tape-to-tape export (in
virtual tape format). The tape is exported as-is if the target library supports encryption on
all of its drives.
• Enable drive-level encryption and export an unencrypted virtual tape using virtual tape
format.
If you choose to export an encrypted tape in host format, the tape is decrypted before it is
exported.
Note You can also export a virtual tape to physical tape using a stacked export job, though
this requires backup management application integration. See Enabling and
Performing Stacked Exports on page 35 for more information.
At a glance, here is an overview of the steps to enable, configure, and use tape-to-tape exports:
1. Configure the physical drive or library for use with tape-to-tape export jobs. You can also
enable VTS to export encrypted virtual tapes, if all drives in a library support encryption.
This step is performed using the web interface before creating jobs.
2. Export virtual tapes by creating tape-to-tape export jobs using the web interface. If
necessary, you can also import exported tapes. Or, you can configure the VTSPolicy
command on the VTS server to automatically export tapes.
To restore a virtual tape that was exported by a tape-to-tape export job, you can import the
virtual tape using the Manage External Data page of the web interface. This restores the
virtual tape to VTS so that a host server can then use the tape. Refer to the help for importing
instructions.
Configuring the physical drive or library
After attaching a physical drive or library to VTS as described in the Quick Start Guide, you
can export virtual tapes to physical tapes. Before creating tape-to-tape export jobs, you can
• assign a user-friendly name to a drive or library
• dedicate a drive or library (and its drives) for tape-to-tape exports