Introducing CA ARCserve Backup Agents and Options › Using Options › Tape Library Option › Introducing the Option › Introduction

Introduction

CA ARCserve Backup is a comprehensive storage solution for applications, databases, distributed servers, and file systems. It provides backup and restore capabilities for databases, business-critical applications, and network clients.

Among the options CA ARCserve Backup offers is the CA ARCserve Backup Tape Library Option. The option includes support for tape RAID libraries. The option supports and provides advanced device and media management for multiple-drive tape libraries. With this option, CA ARCserve Backup can send simultaneous streams of data to each drive to optimize throughput on any multiple-drive tape library.

The option adds tape RAID capabilities to CA ARCserve Backup. All of the standard backup and restore functionality CA ARCserve Backup provides applies to the tape RAID devices that you create using the option.

Note: Tape RAID devices do not support multiplexing and hardware encryption.

This guide describes how to install, configure, and manage CA ARCserve Backup using the following types of devices:

• Multi-drive tape libraries
• Tape RAID libraries