Protecting Critical Data

Use caution any time that you use your tape device to restore information to your system, to avoid loss of critical data if a system abort occurs during the restore process. The tape device can remain online, and AutoRestart/iX dumps to that tape if dump-to-disk is unsuccessful. Be sure to remove the write ring from any tape that you try to restore.

If a system abort occurs during a backup, AutoRestart/iX can write dump information to the write-enabled backup tape currently mounted on the tape drive. If this occurs, you will not have complete backup information. Be sure that you perform a second backup as soon as possible.

	CAUTION: Critical information stored on a tape mounted on your system's tape device can be lost if the tape is write-enabled when a system abort occurs.