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Tape Storage Groups

You can group reports on tape based on how frequently they are browsed from tape. This way, when the server is invoked, it is more often reading a subset of your backup tapes. For reports that are not migrated to optical disk, consider how frequently they are browsed after they expire from the primary disk when you are assigning tape storage groups.

Alternatively, you can group reports based on their retention requirements. One tape storage group could be all the 30-day reports, another 90-day reports, and so on, which reduces the need for tape consolidation.

Note: For more information about tape storage groups, see STORGRP0 and STORGRP1–STORGRP9 in the chapter "Initialization Parameters."