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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2004
Brian Gerard Goodman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Arthur John Colvig, Tucson, AZ (US);
Leonard George Jesionowski, Tucson, AZ (US);
Brian Gerard Goodman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Arthur John Colvig, Tucson, AZ (US);
Leonard George Jesionowski, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are a system, a method, and article of manufacture to provide for managing data storage media to provide secure storage of the data storage media in an automated data storage library. A logical library partition vault is created in the automated data storage library that is not accessible by any host computer. Data storage media in the logical library partition vault may only be accessed by an operator using a secure means. The logical library partition vault may comprise various components of the automated data storage library by assigning storage shelves, service bays, data storage media, data storage drives or other library components to the logical library partition vault.