Making Tape Backups Available to Recovery Appliance

If your current tape backup strategy uses third-party media management software, you can make these tape backups available to the Recovery Appliance. Note that you need to import the metadata for these tape backups into the Recovery Appliance catalog.

To make tape backups available to Recovery Appliance:

  1. Allocate an SBT channel that corresponds to the Recovery Appliance backup module.
  2. Allocate an SBT channel that corresponds to the media management library that manages the existing tape backups.
  3. Maintain both these SBT channels until the retention period or recycling period of the tapes is reached.

    During this period, if required, the protected database can be recovered using the backups stored on tape.

  4. After the retention period or recycling period of the tapes is reached, release the channel configured in Step 2.

See Also:

"Importing Protected Database Metadata Using the IMPORT CATALOG Command"