Patent ID: 11934278
Assignee: SPECTRA LOGIC CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method to protect tape cartridges via a write time window, the method comprising:
providing a tape library comprising a plurality of tape cartridges, a data connection from the tape library to a client and a microprocessor;
disabling the tape library from receiving any archive data over the data connection transmitted to the tape library during an off-schedule that is defined by an off amount of time in a day;
receiving at least some of the archive data transmitted to the tape library over the data connection during an on-schedule that is defined by an on amount of time in the day, the off-schedule and the on-schedule repeat at a scheduled time over at least two consecutive days; and
reading archived data from the tape library anytime during the off-schedule and the on-schedule via the data connection and writing the archive data only during the on-schedule via the data connection.