Manage
- Understand and control how
tape drives are used throughout the enterprise.
- Develop a complete
inventory of drives and media and the usage statistics for each. Assure
the integrity of your valuable data.
DLTSage can answer questions such as:
- Is there a problem with the
drive or media?
- Are there some drives that
are underused?
- Is the tape rotation
protocol working to even out tape usage?
- Are backups being performed
at the frequency expected by management?
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Predict
- Assess which tapes and
drives are nearing the end of their useful lives. Improve backup
credibility by ensuring that drive and media combinations offer acceptable
levels of confidence.
- Use drive and media
statistics to implement predictive maintenance protocols.
DLTSage can see important trends:
- Are error rates trending
up?
- Where is the problem,drive
or media?
- Has the media reached
end-of-life?
- Has the drive reached
end-of-life?
- Predict drive failure.
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Prevent
- To spot failures as they
happen and be able to correct them.
- How much better is it to
know at the time of backup that there may be a questionable result and to
correct the problem at that time rather than need a backup and find it to
be unusable.
DLTSage can address the causes of failure:
- Are read/write error rates
unacceptable?
- Are environmental
temperatures too high?
- Is there a problem with the
cooling system?
- Are there some that are
being stressed too hard?
- Does the drive need
cleaning?
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