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Appendix A—Best Practices Back Up and Protect the Library Metadata
August 2017 User Guide—Spectra T50e Library
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BACK UP AND PROTECT THE LIBRARY METADATA
Toensuretheavailabilityofyourlibraryandencrypteddata,protect
librarymetadatabyfollowingtheproceduresdescribedinthissection.
Librarymetadataincludeslibraryconfigurationdata,theMLMandDLM
databases,andallBlueScaleencryptionkey‐relateddata.
Note: TheDLMdatabaseisincludedinanyoperationsthatbackupor
restoretheMLMdatabase.
Havingreliablebackupsofthelibrarymetadataisveryimportantinthe
caseofdisasterrecoveryandothersituationswhereyouneedtorestorethe
library.
Back Up the Library Metadata
Usethefollowingmethodstocreatebackupcopiesofallofyourlibrary’s
metadata.Thefollowingtableshowsthefilenamesandlocationsofthe
datasavedduringeachtypeofbackupoperation.
Caution
Losing your library’s metadata can have catastrophic effects—as can losing keys in
any encryption key management system. If you lose all copies of all metadata:
 Your encrypted data is lost—you are unable to decrypt encrypted data without
the encryption keys.
 You need to completely reconfigure your library.
 You lose stored data about your media that is time-consuming to recover.
This backup
method...
Creates...
Auto Configuration
Save Option
Atime‐stampedzipfilecontainingthelibraryconfiguration,theMLMand
DLMdatabases,andanyBlueScaleencryptionkeysstoredinthelibrary.The
zipfileisnamed<date-time>cfg.zip,where<date-time>isthetime
stampforwhenthezipfilewascreated.
ThefileisstoredonthememorycardintheLCMandcanbesentasanemail
attachmenttoapreviouslyconfiguredmailrecipient.
 SeeEmailAutoConfigurationSaveonpage109forinformationabout
configuringtheAutoConfigurationSavefeaturesothatthelibrary
automaticallysendsanemailwiththecurrentauto‐saveconfiguration fileto
apre‐configuredmailrecipientonceaweekandwheneveryoucreateor
modifyalibrarypartition.
 SeeBackUptheLibraryConfigurationAutomaticallyonpage115for
informationaboutusingthismethodtobackupthelibraryconfigurationand
theMLMandDLMdatabases.
Note: TheAutoConfigurationSavefeaturedoesnotautomaticallycreatea
backupwhenyoumakeotherconfigurationchangestothelibrary.