STORE and TurboSTORE/iX Products Manual (B5151-90003)

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Preparing Storage Devices
Preparing Tapes and DDSs
Figure 3-2. shows an example of a correctly labeled backup:
Figure 3-2. A Correctly Labeled Tape
5. Stack all your media (tapes or DDSs).
Single If you plan to use a single device, stack all of your backups, label side
up, in order, with the lowest number on top, near the device, as shown
in Figure 3-3..
Figure 3-3. Preparing Tapes for a Single Device
Parallel If you are using parallel devices, stack all of your backups, label side up,
in order with the lowest number on top, near the corresponding device.
For example, place all the backups with numbers ending with Set1 near
your first parallel device. Put media Reel1 Set1 on top of the stack.
Figure 3-4. shows how to prepare backup medias for parallel devices.