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Appendix A — Best Practices MLM Best Practices
November 2016 User Guide—Spectra T950 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andConfigureMLMPreScanand
PostScanonpage199).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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505
andRestoretheMLMandDLMDatabaseson
page392fordetailedinformation.
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.Howeve r,
alloftheMLMdataforthecartridgeisstillavailable.Definethe
frequencywithwhichyouexportthecompleteMLMreportand
makeanote
ofallexportedtapes.
Choose relevant information
for saved reports
WhenyousaveanMLMreport(seeGenerateMLMReportson
page308),youcanchoose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312).
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