Use the procedures described in this section to remove drives for off-site storage. Before removing a drive, you must unmount it.
See the following topics for instructions:
• To unmount an archive drive below
• To remove archive drives for off-site storage
An archive must be unmounted before it is removed from an appliance for offsite storage.
1 Select Archive > Media. Connected media display in the Archive Media area.
2 Select the desired drive.
3 Click Unmount at the bottom of the screen.
The color of the disk icon changes to red to indicate that the drive is no longer mounted.
1 Verify that media is not mounted. See To unmount an archive drive for details.
Caution: Pulling mounted drives can result in data loss and corruption.
2 Pull the drive and be sure it is labeled for easy identification.
For multi-drive systems, archives are striped across all drives in the set, so be sure to store them together as all drives are needed to restore any archived data.