Mounting a Volume

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Mounting a Volume

Before you can back up or recover data from a volume, you must mount the volume on a storage device that the ISM server recognizes.

If you use a file-type storage device, you must still mount a labeled volume on the file-type device before ISM can write backups to the file-type device. The labeling and mounting processes work the same way for file-type volumes as for tape volumes and optical disks.

To mount a volume in a specific device

Load the storage volume in the device.
Label the storage volume (see Labeling a Volume).
To mount the storage volume, use the following command:
```
ism_op -mount device 
```

The Mount status of the storage volume changes to Mounted, and the volume name and pool name appear in their respective columns.

If you try to initiate an ON–Bar backup when a volume is not mounted, ISM requests a writable volume with the following message:

media waiting: backup to pool 'ISMData' waiting for 1 writable
backup tape or disk

You receive one of three messages to request that you mount a volume, relabel a volume, or label a new volume.

If you are recovering data, ISM requests the volume that you need to mount in the device by its volume name, as the following example shows:

media waiting: recover waiting for 8mm 5GB ISMData.0034

Important:

To perform an unattended backup with a stand-alone device, you must premount the volume if the storage device does not have the Automatic Media Management option enabled. The storage device must also be enabled.