Spectra Logic Spectra nTier500 User manual

Spectra nTier File Migrator
User Guide
PN 90990032 Revision A

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Spectra nTier File Migrator User Guide
Revision A, July 2008
Copyright © 2008 Spectra Logic Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Contents
About This Guide 9
Intended Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Related Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Conventions Used in This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Chapter 1 – Overview 11
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Software Feature Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Installations Using a Tape Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Installations using Stand-alone Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Windows Offline Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Determining Disk Space Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Chapter 2 – Concepts 23
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
File Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Constructing the File Name, Path Pattern, or Exclude Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Examples of Allocating Files to File Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Tapes: Volumes, Volume Sets, and Automatic Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Understanding Volume Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
About the Blank Media Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
About the Quarantined Media Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Partial File Restore and Cartridge Spanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Off-line File Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
File Version Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
File Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

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Chapter 3 – Installing nTier File Migrator 35
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Access the nTier Windows Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Prepare the nTier Windows Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Configure the Archive Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Disable Microsoft Removable Storage Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Remove Microsoft Services for NFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Enable Internet Information Services (ISS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Change the Default System Name (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Install nTier File Migrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Install and Activate the Tape Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Install Device Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Enable Stand-Alone Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Activate the nTier File Migrator License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Activate the Archive Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Start the License Administration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Complete the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Next Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Chapter 4 – Configuring nTier File Migrator 47
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Start the Archive Management Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Configure Volume Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Create a New Volume Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Configure the Volume Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Configure Replication for the Volume Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Allocate Tape Cartridges to the Volume Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Allocate Files to File Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Create One or More New File Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Configure the File Group Listing Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Allocate Files to a File Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Set the Policies for the File Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

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Chapter 5 – Using nTier File Migrator 65
Accessing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Access the Current Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Access Old or Deleted Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Working with Tape Cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Importing Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Reformatting Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Setting the Administrator-Defined Information for a Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Displaying Information About a Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Verifying the Data on a Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Finalizing a Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Write-Protecting Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Exporting a Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Managing Volume Sets and File Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Deleting a Volume Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Renaming a File Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Retensioning Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Chapter 6 – System Recovery 79
System Rebuild from Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
About File System Rebuild From Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Rebuilding a File System from Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Disabling and Re-Enabling a Tape Drive or Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Disabling a Tape Drive or Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Re-enabling a Tape Drive or Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Options In Case of Tape Library or Stand-Alone Drive Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

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Chapter 7 – Diagnostics & Maintenance 83
Event Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Opening the Event Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Viewing More Detail about an Error or Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Diagnostic Trace Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Opening the Trace Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Changing the Level of Detail in the Trace Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Automatic Generation of Trace Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Tape Drive and Library Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Tape Drive Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Tape Cartridge Error States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Index 89

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About This Guide
This guide describes how to configure and use the Spectra®nTier™ File Migrator
software.
Intended Audience
This guide is intended for data center administrators and operators who maintain and
operate backup systems. It also assumes a knowledge of technical tasks such as
configuring operating systems and installing drivers.
Related Publications
The following documents are related to the Spectra nTier Intelligent Storage appliances
used with the nTier File Migrator software. For these documents and additional
information about the Spectra nTier Intelligent Storage appliances and libraries, check
the Spectra Logic web site at www.spectralogic.com/documentation.
Spectra nTier Intelligent Secondary Storage Appliances
The Spectra nTier500 Intelligent Secondary Storage Appliance User Guide provides
detailed information about installing, configuring, and using the Spectra nTier500.
The Spectra nTier700 Intelligent Secondary Storage Appliance User Guide provides
detailed information about installing, configuring, and using the Spectra nTier700.
Microsoft Windows Operating System and Software
The integrated Windows server in the Spectra nTier Intelligent Storage appliances runs
the Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 operating system. You can find information about
this operating system on the Microsoft web site at www.microsoft.com/
windowsserver2003.

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Conventions Used in This Guide
This manual uses the following conventions to highlight important information:
Note: Provides additional information or suggestions about the current
topic.
Caution: Provides information you must know to avoid damage to the
library or tape drives or avoid losing data.
Warning: Provides information you must know to avoid personal injury.