Creating a BLM archive request
You can create a BLM archive request on demand from the DS-System using the DS-Operator. You can also create a copy of the latest generation or all generations of the items in a backup.
To create a BLM Archive request:
1. Under Customers, right-click the backup for which you want to create a BLM archive request, and then click BLM Archive.
2. On the Select items for archiving page, select the items from the backup you want to include in the BLM archive package, and then click Next.
3. On the Review selection and select archiving options page, under Archive Options, do the following:
a) In the Session Label box, type a description for the archive request.
b) In the Generations to include box, select one of the following options:
• All – Includes all the generations in the archive package.
• Latest – Includes only the latest generation in the archive package.
c) To use a new archive package rather than have the archive request added to the current archive package, select the Close active package option, and then select one of the following options:
• At session start – A new archive package is created and the existing package is closed when the session starts. The new archive request is added to the new archive package.
• At session end – The new archive request uses the existing archive package when the session ends. The existing package is closed when the archiving process is completed.
NOTE: Once an archive package is closed, no new data is added to it. Subsequent archiving requests create new archive packages.
d) To allow the archive package to contain references to older archive packages, select the Reference previous archive packages option. This reduces data redundancy.
4. Click Finish.