Administrator Guide

Prepare a Portable Volume Disk without Copying Replication Baselines to
It
The Manage Portable Volume Disks wizard allows you to prepare one or more portable volume disks to transport replication data without
copying replication baselines for Storage Center volumes. You might want to do this if you haven’t decided which volumes to include or you
want to allow another Storage Manager user to add the volumes.
1 Connect one or more portable volume disks to the Storage Center.
2 Click the Storage view.
3 In the Storage pane, select a Storage Center.
4 Click the Storage tab.
5 In the Storage tab navigation pane, select Portable Volumes.
Figure 56. Portable Volumes Unassigned Node
NOTE: The Portable Volumes node appears only if one or more portable volume disks are present on the Storage Center.
6 If the portable volume disk(s) contain old or invalid data, erase them.
a In the Storage tab navigation pane, select the portable volume disk.
b In the right pane, click Erase. The Erase Portable Volume dialog box appears.
c Select an Erase Type, then click Yes.
7 In the right pane, click Manage Portable Volume Disks. The Manage Portable Volume Disks wizard appears.
8 Select the Storage Center to which the portable volume will transfer a replication baseline, then click Next. The wizard advances to
the next page.
9 Select one or more portable volume disks and specify optional encryption.
a (Optional) To encrypt the replication baseline, select the Use Encryption check box, then type a password in the Security Key
eld.
b In the Select Portable Volume Disks table, select the portable volume(s) that will transport the replication baseline.
c When you are done, click Finish. The replication baseline is created and the portable volume disk(s) are added to it.
Add a Portable Volume Disk to a Portable Volume Node
If the replication baselines that will be transferred to a destination Storage Center require more space than is provided by the portable
volume disks you initially selected, you can add additional portable volume disks.
1 If necessary, connect an additional portable volume disk to the source Storage Center.
2 Click the Storage view.
3 In the Storage pane, select a Storage Center.
4 Click the Storage tab.
5 In the Storage tab navigation pane, select Repl Baseline To [ ].
6 In the right pane, click Add Disks. The Add Portable Volume Disks dialog box appears.
NOTE
: The Add Disks button appears only if one or more available portable volume disks are connected to the Storage
Center.
7 Select the portable volume disk(s) that you want to add, then click Finish.
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