HP D2D100 Backup System - Manual (Page 86)

device for use with restores at a later date. If a restore is urgently required, the administrator can
put the copied cartridge into a physical tape drive attached to the host and restore directly from
that. In either case, the backup application is aware of the cartridge’s existence.
• Both the D2D system and the host are lost. In this case, the physical cartridge copy (as long as it
was a full system backup) can be used for disaster recovery onto new or repaired server hardware
using a tape device attached to the host server.
Disadvantages of Copy
1. Data is left on the HP D2D Backup System; no disk space is freed by copying to physical
cartridge.
2. It is possible for the backup application to overwrite the cartridge on the HP D2D Backup System
and thus become unaware of the data that has been copied to the physical cartridge.
Cartridge export
The backup application on the host is used to back up data to a slot on the autoloader device (or to a
standalone tape drive device) in the HP D2D Backup System. It is also used to move the data from the slot
into the mail slot. This creates an empty slot where the data was moved.
The Web interface on the HP D2D is used to Export cartridge data from the mail slot on the HP D2D
Backup System to the attached tape drive. After a successful export, the data is removed from the HP
D2D Backup System and the mail slot becomes empty. (If the export fails, the data remains in the mail
slot.) Export removes the data and frees up disk space on the HP D2D Backup System and is useful for
long term archival (for example in a yearly tape in a rotation scheme). If restore is needed, data can be
imported (or moved back) into the HP D2D Backup System.
CAUTION:
Do not export cartridges that the backup application uses on a frequent basis as part of a rotation
strategy because it will not be able to write to the empty slot.
86 Export, import and copy using an attached tape drive