About adding stand-alone volumes

Stand-alone volumes are the volumes that reside in the drives that are not in a robot or are allocated for stand-alone drives.

Because NetBackup does not label volumes until it uses them, you can add volumes even though they do not reside in a drive. The additional volumes are available for use if the volume in a drive becomes full or unusable. For example, if a volume in a stand-alone drive is full or unusable because of errors, NetBackup ejects (logically) the volume. If you add other stand-alone volumes, NetBackup requests that volume; NetBackup does not generate an out of media error.

The easiest way to add stand-alone volumes is to use the Volume Configuration Wizard. Then, when NetBackup requests one of the volumes, insert it into the stand-alone drive and NetBackup labels it.

The DISABLE_STANDALONE_DRIVE_EXTENSIONS option of the nbemmcmd command can turn off the automatic use of stand-alone volumes.

Table: Methods to add stand-alone volumes

Method

Description

The Volume Configuration Wizard

See Adding volumes by using the wizard.

The Actions menu

See Adding volumes by using the Actions menu.

NetBackup commands

See NetBackup Commands.