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Media vaults are logical containers that help you to additionally organize offline tapes. When the tapes are recorded and moved offsite, you need to have easy ways to manage data on such tapes. For example, you may need to view the archived files, the retention period for it, or get clear understanding of physical location of particular tapes in case you have several offsite storing locations. Media vaults visualize information about tapes.
The vaults are created by user and allow the user to virtually move the offline tapes to a vault, grouping them by any criteria. For example, if you have a number of offsite storages for physical tapes, you can create a media vault for each of them. When you transport the physical tapes to the offsite storage, you can accordingly move the offline tapes to a vault in your Veeam backup console mirroring the physical storage. This will allow you to have convenient representation of the list of tapes in each of your physical storages.
Tapes can be moved to a vault automatically if you instruct media pools to move tapes to a selected vault after the tapes go offline. You can also move the tapes from one media vault to another. Tapes will not be shown in their vault when you bring them online. The tapes that have been moved to a vault stay visible in their media pools and under the Offline node. When you remove a tape from the Veeam backup server, it is automatically deleted from the vault.
Media vaults provide detailed information on each tape that belongs to it. The major information that you can view is, though not limited by, the following:
- What tapes are stored in a particular offsite location.
- Which tapes are expired and can be overwritten.
- Which tapes comprise a particular media set that you need to bring for restore.
You can create a media vault for each of your physical storing locations and move data entries about the tapes accordingly to them mirroring the physical storages.
One media vault is not limited to one original location of tapes: one media vault can accumulate tapes produced by different devices and belonging to several media pools.
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