Controlling access to volumes

You can use different methods to control access to volumes.

To control access to volumes, take any of the following actions:

• To prevent the server from mounting a volume, issue the UPDATE VOLUME command and specify the ACCESS=UNAVAILABLE parameter.
• To make volumes unavailable and send them offsite for protection, use a copy storage pool or an active-data storage pool.
• You can back up primary storage pools to a copy storage pool and then send the copy storage pool volumes offsite.
• You can copy active versions of client backup data to active-data storage pools, and then send the volumes offsite.
• You can track copy storage pool volumes and active-data pool volumes by changing their access mode to offsite, and updating the volume history to identify their location.