About volume groups

A volume group identifies a set of volumes that reside at the same physical location. The location can be either the robot in which the volumes reside, standalone storage, or off-site storage if you use the NetBackup Vault option.

When you add media to NetBackup, NetBackup assigns all volumes in a robot to that robot's volume group. Alternatively, you can assign the media to a different group.

Volume groups are convenient for tracking the location of volumes, such as the case when a volume is moved off site. Volume groups let you perform operations on a set of volumes by specifying the group name rather than each individual media ID of each volume. Operations include moves between a robotic library and a standalone location or deletions from NetBackup.

If you move a volume physically, you also must move it logically. A logical move means to change the volume attributes to show the new location.

The following are the rules for assigning volume groups:

Examples of volume group usage are available.

See the NetBackup Administrator's Guide for Windows, Volume II.