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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section III. Configuring storage
  4. Configuring tape media
  5. Managing volumes
  6. About frozen media
  7. Freezing or unfreezing a volume
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Freezing or unfreezing a volume

NetBackup freezes volumes under circumstances.

Use the following procedure to manually freeze or unfreeze a volume.

To freeze or unfreeze media

  1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, in the left pane, expand Media and Device Management > Media.
  2. In the right pane, in the Volumes list, select the volume that you want to freeze or unfreeze.
  3. On the Actions menu, select Freeze or Unfreeze.
  4. In the dialog box, click OK.

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