Tape Management Librarian (TML)
There will be times when you need to know which version of a file is on which tape, and you have thousands of tapes and hundreds of thousands of files. TML will find your needle in the haystack!

TML automates many of the manual functions and eliminates all of the paperwork associated with backup. TML catalogs all backup statistics and provides online lookups and offline reporting of all information associated with backups.

• Backup scheduling
• Tape selection
• Identification labeling
• Tape usage and reliability tracking
• Scratching of expired tapes

TML is a useful tool for the operator, automating tedious but necessary manual functions and assuring that auditing requirements are enforced. TML also provides a lifeline to normal backup operations and data contained on tapes in the operator's absence and for sites that have no operator.

Because TML is fully-integrated within BACKUP/3000, its benefits are provided as a by-product of performing regular backups.

No more manual tasks
TML automates many of the manual functions and eliminates all of the paperwork associated with backup. TML catalogs all backup statistics and provides online lookups and offline reporting of all information associated with backups.

TML is a useful tool for the operator, automating tedious but necessary manual functions and assuring that auditing requirements are enforced. TML also provides a lifeline to normal backup operations and data contained on tapes in the operator's absence and for sites that have no operator.

Because TML is fully-integrated within BACKUP/3000, its benefits are provided as a by-product of performing regular backups.

Organizes Backups and Cycle
To simplify and organize backups, TML defines each type of backup as a cycle, for example, FULL and PARTIAL. The user-defined cycle configuration includes the files to store, the number of generations of the backup cycle to retain, how long to retain each one, how often the cycle is to be stored, on what days it may be stored, and the size of media to select.

Intergrated with store
TML is invoked by simply storing a cycle using BACKUP/3000. The cycle is on BACKUP/3000's referenced STORE command prefixed by an "!", just like an indirect file.

TML automatically selects the required number of free (blank or scratched) tapes of the specified size for the cycle being stored and of the appropriate media for the backup device being stored to. Tapes which have been designated for use with the referenced cycle are selected; otherwise, tapes are selected from a method of any user (even a desperate programmer at midnight) to locate the files needed without the assistance of an operator.