Advanced Task Management

Different scenarios can be achieved in using the Task Management. Here are some possible configurations which will answer what you want to achieve.

Handle multiple copies to tape

Get tape offsite

Implement workflow to get a set of tape offsite.

We recommend to define the two following workflows:

• Two tasks to perform the two copies on tape for the same dataset. The execution of two different tasks has the benefit to avoid a 'y' copy ; and perform two independent read/write operations.

• In addition, on the of the copy can be externalized ; this bring the benefit to get an offline copy of the contents and eventually yield this copy to a third party location.

Multiple tape copies

Implement specific workflow and deal with multiple tape copies

First scenario

Define two different workflows for data protection. This will ensure that the two copies are separate and that if one is damaged, the other will not be.

Specify a different "offline archive" pool for each workflow and associate tapes with each pool or let Nodeum retrieve tapes from the scratch pool.

For the 2 workflows: Select a primary storage: S3 or NAS as a source and select a tape pool as destination.

Second scenario

If your contents are in a container. You can protect your container on tapes too.

For this, you have to create a data protection workflow to copy the container data to a pool "offline archive" and associate tapes for each pool or let Nodeum get tapes from the Scratch pool.

The setting for this workflow is Select data protection from source (container) to destination (tape). Dedicate an "Offline Archive" pool for each workflow and associate a set of tapes to each pool or let Nodeum automatically retrieve tapes from the Scratch pool.

Then you define a second workflow "Data Archiving" to archive the data of your Container to an Active Archive Pool of tapes. The contents will remain accessible from the Container even if the contents are stored in a pool of tape(s).

The setting for this workflow is Select Data Archiving from Source (Container) to Destination (Tape). Dedicate a pool "active archive" for each workflow and associate for a set of tapes in each pool or let Nodeum automatically retrieve tapes from the Scratch pool.