Spectra T950 - Back Up the Library Metadata

Appendix A — Best Practices Back Up and Protect the Library Metadata
November 2016 User Guide—Spectra T950 Library
506
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, especially when related to encrypted
data. 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
database,andtheDLMdatabase.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.Thezipfileisnamed<date-time>cfg.zip,where<date-time
>
isthetimestampforwhenthezipfilewascreated.
 SeeEnableEmailfortheAutoConfigurationSaveFileonpage120for
informationaboutconfiguringtheAutoConfigurationSavefeaturesothat
thelibraryautomaticallysendsanemailwiththecurrentAutoConfiguration
Savefiletoapre‐configuredmailrecipientonceaweekandwheneveryou
createormodifyalibrarypartition.
 SeeUseAutomaticBackupoftheLibraryConfigurationonpage146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.