About adding standalone volumes
Standalone volumes are the volumes that reside in the drives that are not in a robot or are allocated for standalone 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 standalone drive is full or unusable because of errors, NetBackup ejects (logically) the volume. If you add other standalone volumes, NetBackup requests that volume; NetBackup does not generate an out of media error.
The DISABLE_STANDALONE_DRIVE_EXTENSIONS option of the nbemmcmd command can turn off the automatic use of standalone volumes.
Table: Methods for adding standalone volumes
| Method | Description |
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Manually add a volume | See Adding volumes . |
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NetBackup commands |
See the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide. |