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Appendix A—Best Practices MLM Best Practices
August 2017 User Guide—Spectra T50e Library
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Enable load count alerts Loadcountalerts,usedincombinationwiththemediahealthicon,
letyoumonitorthehealthofindividualtapes.Tapeswithlowload
counts,butwithayelloworredhealthiconarevulnerabletohigh
errorsratesorretries.
Forhigherlevelsofnotification,configureathresholdforthe
maximumnumberoftimesadatacartridgecanbeloadedbeforean
alertisgenerated(see
EnableMLMandConfigureSettingson
page236).Whenthenumberofloadsexceedsthisthreshold,MLM
generatesasystemmessagelistingthebarcodeofthetape.
Youcanalsoenableanalerttonotifyyouwhentheloadcount
recordedonthecartridgeMAMdiffersfromtheloadcountstored
intheMLMdatabasebutnoneoftheotherdatawaschanged.This
typeofdiscrepancycanindicatethatthetapewasloadedintoanon‐
Spectra
Logiclibrary.Usethisalertasasecurityfeaturetoletyou
knowwhenatapewasremovedandloadedintoadriveina
differentlibrary.
Regularly back up your MLM
database
DeterminehowfrequentlytoexporttheMLMdatabaseforstorage.
YoucansavetheMLMdatabasetoaUSBdeviceoremailittoa
previouslyconfiguredmailrecipient.Thedatabasecanbeloaded
backintothelibraryintheeventofanerror.See
DisasterRecovery
Planningonpage476andRestoretheMLMandDLMDatabaseson
page377fordetailedinformation.SeeConfigureMailUserson
page104forinformationaboutconfiguringmailrecipients.
BackinguptheMLMdatabaseproducesapoint‐in‐timesnapshotof
theMLMdatabase.Basedonthenumberoftapesyouroutinely
importintoandexportfromthelibrary,determinehowfrequently
backupsareneededtoensurethatyoucaneasilyrestoretheMLM
database.
Enable non-MLM media alerts Alertsfornon‐MLM‐enabledmedianotifyyouwhenacartridge
thatisnotMLM‐enabledisloadedintoadrive.
Track exported cartridges Whenacartridgeisexportedfromthelibrary,anasterisk(*)nextto
thebarcodeindicatesthatitiscurrentlyoutofthelibrary.However,
alloftheMLMdataforthecartridgeisstillavailable.Definethe
frequencywithwhichyougeneratethecompleteMLMreportand
makeanote
ofallexportedtapes.
Select relevant information for
saved reports
WhenyousaveanMLMreport(seeGenerateMLMReportson
page255),youcanselectbetweensavingallMLMdataorjustthe
datafromthemostrecentlyviewedreport.
YoucansaveacopyoftheMLMreportasacomma‐separatedtext
file(*.rpt)toaUSBdevice,mailthesavedreporttopreviously
configuredemailrecipient,orboth.Ifdesired,youcanzipthefile
beforesavingit(see
SaveanMLMReportonpage260).
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