Spectra T50e - Verify the Database Backup File

Chapter 8—Configuring and Using Media Lifecycle Management Managing the MLM Database
August 2017 User Guide—Spectra T50e Library
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Verify the Database Backup File
AfterbackinguptheMLMdatabase,useoneoftheproceduresinthe
followingtabletoconfirmthatthebackupfilewasgenerated.
If the backup was... Follow these steps...
Saved to a USB
device
1. PlugtheUSBdeviceintoaPCthatisnotconnectedtothelibrary.
2. ExaminethelistoffilesontheUSBdeviceandlocatetheSave dMLMDB
folder.
3. Openthefoldertoverifythatitcontainsoneofthefollowingfiles,where
<date-time>isthetimestampforwhenthebackupwascreated:
 cminfo_<date-time>.zdt(ifyouchosetocompressthefileinStep9
onpage265)
—OR—
 cminfo_<date-time>.dat(ifyouchosenottocompressthefile)
4. Makesurethatthefileismorethan0bytesinsize.
5. Ifafilewiththecorrectfilenameformatispresentandismorethan0bytesin
size,thedatabasebackupwassuccessfulandthefileisusable.StoretheUSB
deviceinasafelocation.
6. IftheMLMdatabasefileisnotpresentorifitis0bytesinsize,repeatthe
backupprocess(
BackUptheMLMandDLMDatabasesonpage263)usinga
differentUSBdevice.
Sent as an email
attachment
1. Opentheemailattachmentandverifythat:
 Theattachmentcontainsazipfilecalled
cminfo_<date-time>.zdt
—AND—
 Thefileismorethan0bytesinsize.
2. Ifthezipfileispresentandismorethan0bytesinsize,thebackupwas
successfulandisusable.Savetheemailattachmenttoasafelocationfrom
whichyoucancopyittoaUSBdevice,ifneeded.
3. Ifthezipfileisnotpresentorifitis0bytesinsize,repeatthebackupprocess
(
BackUptheMLMandDLMDatabasesonpage263)togeneratetheemail
again.