Use your current backup-to-tape solution to achieve the following:
Archive the DigiStore repository data to tape for off-site storage redundancy
Protect against natural disasters
Retain data for longer periods than those set in the Enterprise- and group-based policies
Retaining up to 30 days' worth of data in the DigiStore repository is usually more than sufficient to meet the needs of most organizations. However, a corporate policy might require 90 days or more retention. In such cases, keeping all of the data on disk might not be practical, because it would require an inordinate amount of disk space.
By archiving to tape those portions of the DigiStore repository that exceed practical limits, administrators are able to remain in compliance with corporate policies while retaining a practical amount of data for point-in-time restoration.
The data written to tape retains the security and efficiency benefits of DigiVault, including encryption and compression; therefore, the data fits on fewer tapes, and, if the tapes are lost or fall into the wrong hands, the data contained on them is secured with 256-bit encryption.
If you need to retrieve the archived repository data, it can be restored to a special DigiStore import directory for immediate use.
Execute periodic manual backups to accomplish repository protection. In addition, you can use the ESP backup integration agent to implement integrated archive-to-tape protection.
For additional information about these methods, refer to the following topics:
For additional information about data repositories, refer to DigiVault Repository Management.