Copy Properties (Media)

Use this dialog box to enable or disable multiplexing, and to enable or disable the Erase Media on Prune feature.

Optimize Media Usage

• Combine Source Data Streams to n Streams

Allows you to specify the number of streams that an auxiliary copy operation can be combined to. If one stream is selected, then the auxiliary copy operation will copy the data from all streams to one data stream. If cleared, the auxiliary copy operation will copy the data using multiple data streams.

Note that multi-stream backups of the DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, and Sybase agents will not be copied to a copy that combines streams.

• Multiplex Source Streams
  If selected, data protection operations of multiple data streams can be run concurrently to the same media. If disabled, data protection operations to the same media must be run individually. Multiplexing is not supported if any of the copies contain deduplicated data.
  • Multiplexing Factor

  Select how many data streams from this storage policy are to be backed up concurrently to the same media.

Write to a Different Library Compared to Source Copy

Click to prevent a job from being copied to the same library during auxiliary copy operations.

Erase Media

• Mark Media to be Erased After Recycling

  If selected, for the storage policy copy using removable media (tape or optical media), the media will be marked for erase, when the media is recycled. 

  Note that the Erase Spare Media operation must be initiated to actually erase the contents of these media.

  This option is not applicable for storage policy copies with destinations pointing to magnetic or stand-alone libraries.