BackBox H4.00 User Manual
User Interface
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BackPak View
The right part of a displayed row shows the attributes of a mount request managed by
the BackPak Domain Manager.
Volume in Domain: tells if the volume label is known in the BackPak domain.
Request Type: $ZSVR for regular mount requests seen in MEDIACOM,
PRELOAD for requests generated internally by BackBox.
PRELOAD is a special BackBox feature for optimizing multi-volume restores,
rarely used. Refer to Product presentation and Volume Group configuration
Load attempts: Count of number of attempted loads.
Mount Status: Internal status of the request:
PENDING - the first load attempt did not complete
NO RESOURCE - a resource (drive, disk space) is not available
FAILED – last attempt failed for reason other than ‘no resource’
LOADED – load internally completed
LOADING – load being processed, ex: a restore script is running
NO MORE RETRY – maximum number of retry set in BBEXTCFG is reached
Assigned device: Tape device assigned by BackPak for a loaded or loading
request.
Details: Link to open a Windows about the mount request, for additional data
and possible actions on this mount requests. See next section.
Tape Devices
This list contains all devices that are configured in the logged-in BackPak Domain.
NonStop View
The left part of a row shows the attributes of the device as reported by MEDIACOM.
Device: NonStop device name.
Device type: Device type recognized by the NonStop tape system: CART3480,
LTO2, LTO3, LTO4
Device status: Device status as reported by MEDIACOM, i.e. FREE, IN-USE,
DOWN …
Volume: Volume label recognized by $ZSVR.
Label type: Label type processing.
VT Controller View
The right part of a row shows the attributes of the device as managed by the VTC.
VTC Name: Name of the Virtual Tape Controller










