Configure a Database Backup

Spectra Logic strongly recommends that you configure a database backup with a daily recurring schedule, making two copies of the data which are stored in geographic locations separate from the StorCycle server.

IMPORTANT 

If something happens to the StorCycle database and you do not have a backup, you will lose information about what files have been migrated and where they are located.

The Jobs pane of the main dashboard (see Figure 97) provides the date and time for the last successful Database Backup. The background color for the Database Backup status indicates the age of the last successful backup:

White — Less than one day old.
Yellow — One to seven days old.
Red — Greater than seven days old.

Use the instructions below to configure a database backup.

1. Click Settings in the toolbar and then select Database Backup. The Database Backup screen displays showing recurring and single run Database Backup Projects and database backup jobs.

Figure 24 The Database Backup screen.

2. Click Schedule New Database Backup.

Continue with Schedule a New Database Backup—Database Backup Project Name