5 2 0:Grouping SEP sesam Objects
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In SEP sesam, grouping components and objects helps you organize and manage your backup infrastructure effectively. Hierarchical organization can improve efficiency across tasks, devices, and storage media.
By organizing SEP sesam objects into groups, administrators can better manage the complexity of their backup environments. Each grouping serves a specific purpose, ensuring that resources are used optimally and processes run smoothly, reducing the need for manual intervention.
SEP sesam object groups
Locations
Locations are used to logically group SEP sesam Clients. Every client must belong to a location, which can represent and organize clients based on certain properties such as operating system, data type, physical location or any other category.
Locations are especially useful when SEP sesam is deployed across wide area networks (WANs) or distributed environments. For each location a credential set can be defined, which enables central management of client access permissions and ensures consistent access control across all clients in that location. For example, an administrator credential set can be configured for a specific network and assigned to a location, eliminating the need to manage access permissions for each client separately.
Grouping clients makes it easier to manage backups, updates, and permissions across a large organization. Administrators can update or manage multiple clients within a location in one action, such as updating all clients in a location at once, rather than handling each client individually.
Drive groups
Drive groups enable organizing multiple drives into logical sets, especially when several drives are configured on the same SEP sesam Server. By grouping similar drives (e.g., tape drives or disk storage devices), SEP sesam can optimize how backup jobs are assigned to drives.
When a backup job is initiated, SEP sesam automatically selects an available drive from the group. If one drive is in use or malfunctions, the backup job will switch to another available drive in the group, ensuring continuous operation without manual intervention and minimizing the risk of delays due to hardware failure. Backup load can be distributed across all available drives, ensuring that no single drive becomes a bottleneck.
Media pools
Media pools are used to organize backup media (e.g., tapes, disks) based on different criteria, such as the type of data being backed up, its source, or the type of drive being used. This categorization enables efficient management of storage media and ensures that the correct media is used for the right type of backup.
Each media pool is defined by attributes such as the retention period, overwrite policy, and the type of drive it can be used with. When a backup is performed, SEP sesam selects media from the pool based on the configuration. This ensures that the media is used efficiently and simplifies tracking and management of backup data.
Task groups
A task group is a collection of backup tasks that can be triggered and managed together. Instead of executing tasks one by one, task groups allow administrators to launch all related tasks with a single event, optimizing the backup process. This ensures that tasks are processed in parallel, according to the number of available channels, while the remaining tasks are queued and executed sequentially.
For a task group, follow-up events such as migrations or commands/scripts can be configured to run after all tasks in the group have completed. This provides an efficient way to automate complex workflows without manually managing each task.
A group of similar or related backup tasks is triggered with a single event, which defines the media pool, the backup level and other settings, ensuring consistent storage management and enabling the use of uniform backup strategies across multiple tasks. By combining multiple tasks into one group, you reduce administrative overhead and improve backup efficiency.
See also
Managing Locations — Managing Drives — Managing Media Pools — Managing Backup Groups