HP B6960-90078 manual Handling Mount, Requests, File Devices

Configuring and Using Backup Devices

Configuring File Devices

	You specify the capacity of a file device when you first format the
	medium. When you reformat the medium, you can specify a new size;
	however, the originally specified size will be used. You can change the
	capacity of a file device only by deleting the file from the system.
	The path to a file device can be anywhere, whether it is an internal drive
	or an external portable hard drive.
Handling Mount	Media are handled differently from physical devices. When a standalone
Requests	file device (medium) becomes full, Data Protector tries to write to the
	same file again. Data Protector does not recognize that any other file
	exists, so it issues a mount request.
	When the mount request occurs, the existing file has to be moved or
	renamed (for example, by exchanging the ZIP media). The original file
	should no longer exist after the move. You then need to confirm the
	mount request. Data Protector will recreate the original file with the
	default file capacity. After the backup is finished, the file created by Data
	Protector contains the last part of the backup.
	For Jukebox file devices, Data Protector issues a mount request when all
	media (files) are full.
Prerequisite	Before you configure a file device on a Windows system, disable the file
	compression option. This can be done using Windows Explorer.
	Right-click the file, select Properties and deselect Compress under
	Attributes. If Compress is selected, Data Protector will not be able to
	write to the file device.
IMPORTANT	Do not use the name of an existing file for configuring a file device,
	because the existing file will be overwritten.
	Do not use the same filename for configuring several file devices, because
	every time a file device accesses the file, it will be overwritten.
How to Configure	To create a standalone file device, specify the Standalone device type in
File Devices	the Add Device wizard. Refer to Figure 2-2. As a device address, specify
	a pathname for the file device, for example, C:\My_Backup. Refer to
	Figure 2-3. For detailed steps, refer to the online Help index keyword
	“configuring file devices”.

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