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The Media Management Administrator (MM Admin) The Media Management Administrator (MM Admin) Note: To use MM Admin, you must install the BrightStor ARCserve Backup Enterprise Module. MM Admin lets you protect, control, and manage your media resources. Using MM Admin, you can organize tape movement to off-site storage locations, define retention policies to ensure that your tapes are protected from being prematurely overwritten, secure access to tape-resident files, and maintain a comprehensive inventory of tape library resources. MM Admin activities are recorded in the BrightStor ARCserve Backup Activity Log. This includes information, warnings, and errors. This important function allows you to centrally keep track of all media management operations. To manage media using MM Admin, you must create a vault, create a schedule, select a vault criteria descriptor, and define a rotation. The following sections include information on each of these steps and cover all topics associated with managing your media using MM Admin. Media Management and Tape Service In data centers with off-site storage locations, tape volumes are typically cycled out of the central tape library to more secure storage areas (vaults), and then cycled back into the central library. MM Admin works with Tape Service to provide additional media control, rotation, slot number assignment, and reporting on vaulted tape volumes so that you can physically route these tape volumes to off-site storage locations and back to the data center, as necessary. You can define vaulting criteria using MM Admin. The criteria for holding tape volumes in vaults can be different for each schedule and for each vault. As tape volumes meet these criteria, they are checked out of Tape Service with the proper vault code and reports are generated indicating the current location and destination to where the tape volumes must be moved. Managing Devices and Media 7-21