How to Copy Tapes

Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2007

You can use DPM to copy data from a tape to disk, or from a disk or tape to tape.

To copy the contents of a tape to disk

1. In DPM Administrator Console, click Management on the navigation bar.

2. Click the Libraries tab, expand the tape library or stand-alone tape drive, select the tape that you want to copy, and then click View tape contents.

3. In the tape contents dialog box, select the data to be copied, and then click Copy.

4. In the Specify Alternate Recovery Destination dialog box, specify a destination on a server that has the protection agent installed, and then click OK.

5. Click Yes to proceed with the copy operation.

6. Click OK to close the message.

   You can view the progress of the copy job in the Monitoring task area on the Jobs tab.

To copy data from disk or tape to tape

1. In DPM Administrator Console, click Recovery on the navigation bar.

2. Select the data that you want to copy to tape, and then click Recover.

   The Recovery Wizard opens.

3. On the Review Recovery Selection page, you can confirm which tape or tapes the data is on. Click Next to continue.

4. On the Specify Recovery Type page, select the copy to tape option, and then click Next.

5. On the Specify Library page, in Primary library, select a library to use for recovery. Copy library is available only when the job cannot be completed using only the tape library selected in Primary library.

   • When the data is being copied from disk, the library you select in Primary library copies the data to tape.

   • When the data is being copied from tape and the tape library has multiple tape drives, the library you select in Primary library reads from the source tape and copies the data to another tape.

   • When the data is being copied from tape and the tape library has only a single tape drive, the library you select in Primary library reads from the source tape and the library you select in Copy library copies the data to tape.

6. On the Specify Recovery Options page, you can specify e-mail addresses to receive notification upon completion of the recovery. Click Next to continue.

7. On the Summary page, review the settings, and then click Recover.