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

Claim 16:
17. A tape library protection method comprising:
connecting a tape library to a wide area network, the tape library comprising a plurality of tape cartridges, a plurality of tape drives, a random-access memory and a microprocessor;
enabling the tape library to write archive data received over the wide area network to at least one of the plurality of tape cartridge during a write window of time in a day, the write window of time is a scheduled amount of time that is less than 6 hours in the day;
disabling the tape library from writing the archive data received over the wide area network to any of the tape cartridges when outside of the write window of time;
repeating the write window of time over at least two of the days; and
reading archived data from the tape library anytime in the day.