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Tasks You Can Perform Using Disk Staging

The operations and tasks associated with the staging include the following:

• Specify and configure file system devices, tape libraries, and virtual tape libraries.
• Configure devices as a staging group and configure staging group policies.
• Submit backup jobs to staging groups.
• Define policies for managing backup, data migration, data security, data purge, alert messages, and postscript operations.
• Perform simultaneous backup operations to devices in a staging group.
• Disable staging in rotation and GFS rotation backup jobs on any specified day of the week.
• View the status of master and child jobs in the Job Status Manager. The Job Status Manager displays a tree view of all master jobs and their corresponding child jobs for backup and migration operations.
• View the Activity Log (in Windows) displaying the logs of all the child jobs and migration jobs, and the purging activities of the master job in a tree format.
• Restore data from a staging device. If the data from a backup job resides in two locations (on the file system device and on the final destination media), you can restore the data from either location.
• Run command line tools that can analyze and purge data stored on a FSD in a staging group.
• Access reports using the Report Manager to capture information about purge and migration activities on FSDs.
• Perform a Double Tape Copy migration job from the disk staging location to two final destinations simultaneously.

  To ensure that the migration job continues when one of the devices become unavailable, you can set a timeout value for additional backup media to continue the migration job in another device. If you do not set a timeout value, then the data migration job fails after the first backup media timeout completes. For more details about setting the timeout value, see Backup Manager Backup Media Options.