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Introduction

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 Arcserve Backup offers is the 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, 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 Arcserve Backup. All of the standard backup and restore functionality 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 Arcserve Backup using the following types of devices: