The automated Mount
policy operation provides a mechanism for mounting a Hitachi Block based snapshot or replication to a host machine so that
the mounted volume can be used for repurposing or proxy backup to another medium (e.g. a Protector repository). The mount operation can be scheduled to occur at
the desired phase relative to other operations in the policy. The computing load of
repurposing or backup processing is offloaded to the host where the volume is mounted. The
sequencing of the mount operation is dependent on the type of mount selected when the policy
is assigned on the data flow:
- Repurpose - the volume remains mounted but is periodically unmounted, re-evaluated, then remounted. See About the repurposing mount sequence.
- Proxy Backup - the volume remains unmounted but is periodically mounted, the backup process run, then the volume is unmounted. See About the proxy backup mount sequence.