SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MEDIA MANAGEMENT, SUCH AS MANAGEMENT OF MEDIA TO AND FROM A MEDIA STORAGE LIBRARY

• US 20080249656A1
• Filed: 03/31/2008
• Published: 10/09/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CommVault Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: CommVault Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Gokhale, Parag, Kottomtharayil, Rajiv
• Granted Patent: US 8,402,000 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/215
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/004 Error avoidance G06F11/07 and subgroups take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/11 File system administration, e.g. details of archiving or snapshots file system backup G06F11/14
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0604 Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. storage management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0634 by changing the state or mode of one or more devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0686 Libraries, e.g. tape libraries, jukebox
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/41 Flat as opposed to hierarchical combination, e.g. library of tapes or discs, CD changer, or groups of record carriers that together store one title
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/002 Programmed access in sequence to a plurality of record carriers or indexed parts, e.g. tracks, thereof, e.g. for editing; transfer of record carriers from magazine G11B15/68, G11B17/10; G11B17/22

Abstract

A system and method for determining media to be exported out of a media library is described. In some examples, the system determines a media component to be exported, determines the media component is in the media library for a specific process, and exports the media component after the process is completed.

Claims

1. A method of verifying a request for data storage media to be recalled from an off-site location to a data storage media library associated with a data storage operation, the method comprising:

receiving information indicating a shipment of media components sent from a media storage facility to the media library;

upon receipt at the media library of the shipment of media components from the media storage facility, automatically or partially automatically identifying the media components in the shipment;

automatically comparing the identified media components with the received information indicating the media components sent from the media storage facility; and

when the comparison determines that the identified media components include the indicated media components, automatically confirming receipt of the requested media components;

or

when the comparison determines that the identified media components do not include all of the indicated media components, automatically or partially automatically performing an action to obtain the not included media components.

2. A system for verifying a shipment of requested data storage media components received at a media library, the system comprising:

an identification component, wherein the identification component identifies the received media components;

a comparison component, wherein the comparison component compares information related to the identified media components with information related to the requested media components; and

a verification component in communication with the identification component and comparison component, wherein the verification component determines if the shipment contains the requested media components based at least in part on the comparison.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the identification component includes a machine-readable symbol scanner configured to identify a media component by reading one or more machine-readable symbols of the media component.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the information related to the requested media components includes a printed report automatically generated by a provider of the requested media components.

5. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

a system information component, wherein the system information component is configured to review the information related to the requested media components and determine a possible location of a requested media component not included in the shipment.

6. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

an error correction component, wherein the error correction component performs an action related to correcting an error in shipment when the verification component determines that the shipment does not contain all the requested media components.

7. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

a confirmation component, wherein the confirmation component performs an action related to confirming that the shipment contains all the requested media components.

8. A method of correcting an erroneous shipment of media components received at a data storage library, the method comprising:

determining that media components requested by the data storage library are not included in the shipment, or that the shipment contains media components not requested by the data storage library, by comparing the received media components with a report included in the shipment that provides information identifying the requested media components; and

automatically performing an action to correct the erroneous shipment of media components to the data storage library.

9. A computer-readable medium containing executable code that causes a computing system to perform a method of verifying a recall of data to a data storage system, the method comprising:

transmitting a request for a specified set of data stored at a data storage facility;

receiving a set of data at the data storage system from the data storage facility;

comparing the requested set of data with the received set of data; and

upon determining that the received set of data contains the requested set of data, performing an action confirming the receipt of the specified set of data;

or

upon determining that the received set of data does not contain the requested set of data, performing an action to obtain the specified set of data.