Use the BRMS Media Management to create an automated tracking
system for all of your media activities. BRMS provides a variety
of components with which you can track, protect, and store your media.
Because BRMS Media Management is large and diverse, we have arranged
its components into groups. Placing the media management components
into groups gives you an easy understanding of the components available
and the ways in which you can use them.
Figure 4. The BRMS Media Management Components
Components for Preparing Media
Use these components to prepare your media for backup or recovery
processing. These components include media classes, and techniques
for enrolling, initializing, and handling media.
Components for Storing Media
Use these components to define and track storage location and
media retention information.
Components for Moving Media
Use these components to coordinate and track media movement
from one storage location to another and to verify scheduled movement.
These components include move policies, move commands, and move monitoring
techniques.
Components for Tracking Media
Use these components to assist you in tracking media through
various stages of your backup, recovery, and media management operations.
These components include the BRMS media inventory database, and
techniques for duplicating media and printing media labels.
You can design your media management operation to use all of these
components, or to use only those desired for specific purposes. You
may use some of these components frequently and some not at all. See Setting Up Your Media Management Operation for information and instructions on how to use the media
management components.
