Mounting and Unmounting Volumes in a Silo

You must mount a volume before you read or write data on it. Volumes are mounted in a device in the silo by the robotic mechanism.

To mount a volume in a silo device, you can use either the Backup administration program or the nsrjb -l command. When you mount a volume, you must specify the volume, slot, or barcode.

You must dismount a volume before you can inventory the volumes in a silo or deallocate the volume from a Backup silo. To unmount a volume, you can use either the Backup administration program or the nsrjb -u command.

To specify a barcode identifier or template for the volumes, you can use the -T option with either nsrjb command.