Simple Media Vaulting / Off-Site Tape Vaulting
The need, to backup the data from your servers to media and thus to maintain data security does not stop when backed up to tape, there is often a request to protect the tapes from further appending or overwriting or to move the media off the tape library and to store it on a safe place (safe, backup computer center, …). Each Data Protector admin knows this specific situation, finding out which media was used in the last full backup for vaulting. The experienced admin will configure Data Protector to send a report or use many different pools to keep the daily backup, weekly backup and monthly backup apart. Problem: The media sets often should then be moved to a own vaulting pool before they are taken off the library. Solution: Just for this problem I wrote a small Perl script. As always, I write my scripts in Perl, as this language is very flexible for such simple tasks. The script does not need