Chapter 12—Library Troubleshooting Restoring the Library Configuration
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RESTORING THE LIBRARY CONFIGURATION
Overview Ifyouhavevalidbackupsofthelibrary’sconfigurationandthe
MLMdatabasesavedonaUSBdeviceorsentasanemailattachment,you
canusethebackupstorestorethelibraryintheeventofadisaster.Youcan
alsousethesebackupstorestorethelibraryifproblemsrequireyouto
replacetheLCMorthememorycardintheLCM.SeeBackingUpthe
LibraryConfigurationonpage114forinformationaboutbackingupthe
libraryconfiguration.
Notes: Alibraryconfigurationbackupfilecanonlybeusedto
restorethelibrarythatgeneratedit.Theconfiguration
backupfilecannotbeusedtoclonetheconfigurationfrom
onelibrarytoanother.
Allbackupfilesofthelibraryconfigurationincludeany
BlueScaleencryptionkeysthatwerestoredinthelibraryat
thetimethefilewascreated.
ThebackupoftheMLMdatabasealsocontainstheDLM
database.
User Privilege Requirements Onlyauserwithsuperuseroradministrator
privilegescanrestorethelibraryconfigurationandtheMLMandDLM
databases.TorestoreBlueScaleencryptionkeys,theusermustalsobe
loggedinasanencryptionuser.SeeUnderstandingUserGroupsand
Securityonpage96andConfiguringBlueScaleKeyManagementon
page303foradditionalinformation.
To restore the... Using the... See...
Libraryconfiguration,theMLMand
DLMdatabases,andtheBlueScale
encryptionkeysstoredinthelibrary
AutoConfiguration
Savefile,
RestoreFromanAuto
ConfigurationSaveFileon
page368.
Libraryconfigurationandthe
BlueScaleencryptionkeysstoredinthe
library
Savedconfiguration
file,
RestoretheLibraryConfiguration
UsingaSavedConfigurationon
page374.
MLMandDLMdatabases MLMdatabase
backupfile,
RestoretheMLMandDLM
Databasesonpage377.
BlueScaleencryptionkeys Exportedkeyfile, ImporttheRequiredKeyIntothe
Libraryonpage318.