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

Claim 8:
9. A data protection method comprising:
providing a tape library connected to a network via a data connection, the tape library comprising a plurality of tape cartridges, a plurality of tape drives and a microprocessor;
the tape library disabling all of the plurality of tape drives from writing archive data incoming over the network to any of the tape cartridges during a scheduled no-write window of time that is defined by an off amount of time in a day;
the tape library receiving at least some of the archive data transmitted to the tape library over the data connection during a scheduled write window of time that is defined by a predetermined 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 scheduled write window of time and the scheduled no-write window of time via the data connection.