How DPM Uses Stand-Alone Tape Drives

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Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

For stand-alone tape drives, DPM does the following for each protection group:

  • Appends all short-term backups to a single tape.

  • Appends all long-term backups to a single tape that is different from the short-term backup tape.

When a tape fills up, DPM raises an alert to add a new free tape.