BackBox H4.00 User Manual

User Interface
173 BackBox H4.00 User Manual
Volume Load
The Volume load page allows to “manually” load a virtual volume on a NonStop tape
drive outside the context of a mount request.
IMPORTANT: the manual loading is normally initiated through the Home page and the
Status for NonStop node page where the pending mounts are listed. The load will
then execute in the context of the associated mount request. In this case, the Volume
load page below is skipped because all parameters are provided by the mount request in
$ZSVR.
When a volume is loaded by this page, the load is executed without the context of a
mount request and therefore might fail because of the configured automation.
Especially, if the volume was just created in an “Auto-scratch” Volume group associated
to DSM/TC, error such as “file not found” will occur; the volume will be created only by
running a BACKUP with a TAPECATALOG DEFINE.
Page elements
Volume: Volume label and label type to load.
Node: Guardian node of the tape device where to load the volume.
Device: Guardian tape device to load the volume on. If left to AUTO-ASSIGN,
the Domain Manager will choose a device.
Comment: Free text kept in the BackPak catalog for the volume.
Volume Lock: Check to prohibit updates of the volume by a tape application.
Tape Use: IN or OUT, tape use of the mount request.
Load button: submit the load request to the Domain Manager.
Volume Materialization
The Volume Materialization page is used to clone a single virtual volume to a physical
media loaded on a VT Controller attached drive.
This operation was named “Volume Export” in older BackBox versions.