Preparing your media to save your system
Use this information to select and manage the save media that you will use for all your save functions.
Managing your tapes and other media is an important part of your save operation. If you cannot locate the correct and undamaged tapes and other media that you need to do a recovery, your system recovery is more difficult. Here is a list of the save media types:
- Magnetic tape
- Optical media
- Virtual optical
- Save file
- Virtual tape
Successful media management involves making decisions about how to manage your media, writing down those decisions, and monitoring the procedures regularly.
- Choosing your save media
Learn about the different types of media that can be used for save and restore operations as well as which save and restore commands can be used with the different types of media.- Rotating tapes and other media
Learn why rotating your media is a good save procedure practice.- Preparing media and tape drives
Understand why it is important to clean and initialize your tape drives.- Naming and labeling media
This information provides guidelines for naming and labeling your media.- Verifying your media
Learn why it is important to verify the correct use of your media.- Storing your media
What are some guidelines for storing your media?- Handling tape media errors
This information explains the three most common types of media errors and how to handle them.
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