Unloading of tapes
Our support staff is required daily to eject tapes to be taken off-site. When this occurs tapes may be in use that were used the previous night for backups and they can not eject the tapes. This bre...
Vault has the ability to suspend tapes before eject them - so if you enable duplication, the duplication runs for your selected backup images, then it will proceed to catalog backup (if enabled), and only then trying to eject tapes (if you select immediate eject). Before eject, you can ask vault to suspend those tapes.
Vault works a bit differently from SLP, if your concern is the timing and want to be really sure when duplication and media suspend can be done, vault could be a good choice. Of course, evaulate first why you need SLP.
