Special considerations for archiving to tape

Before running on-demand or scheduled archives, note these additional tape considerations:

Tape Consideration

Description

Purge option

The archive purge option is not supported.

Compression option

If the tape device is configured for hardware compression, it is recommended that you run archives without compression. Since the appliance doesn’t have to compress the data, archives run more quickly.

Encryption option

If the tape device is configured for encryption, archives are encrypted regardless of this setting.

For multi-tape archives

All tapes configured for the archive job are labeled as part of the archive and must be rotated as a set. All tapes must be available to restore data. See Managing tape inventory for details.

Tape devices with barcodes

On tape devices that support barcodes, the system recognizes the barcode as soon as you insert the tape into the library. The system supports a mixed usage of tapes for barcodes.