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Creating Volumes in R1Soft’s CDP 3.0 Enterprise Edition

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Creating Volumes in R1Soft’s CDP 3.0 Enterprise Edition

In this article , you can see how to create volumes in R1Soft’s CDP3 Enterprise Edition.

We suppose that you have connected to the CDP 3.0 server and logged in.

Step 1:  In the Dashboard menu, click on “Volumes”.

Step 2:   Now, click on “Create New Volume” in the Volumes menu located at top left pane.

Step 3:  Once you click on “Create New Volume” a popup window will open:

Step 4:  Enter the following settings:

Identification options:

Name – Enter a name for the volume to identity it while assigning a volume to a disk safe.
Description – Enter a description for the volume.
Volume Path – Enter a new or existing folder path to place the assigned disk safes in this folder.

Quotas:

Quota Type – Select “On Disk Size”
Soft Quota – Enter a minus 2 figure of your backup plan size. For example: if a client purchased 20GB backup space, then enter Soft Quota 18GB.
Hard Quota – Backup place size

Groups: Here you can assign a group(s) to the volume. Select a group from the drop-down menu and hit the “Add” button.

Users: Here you can assign user(s) to the volume. Select a user from the drop-down menu and hit the “Add” button.

Step 5: Once you are done with the Volume settings, click on the  “Create” button at the bottom of the window to create a new volume to the system.

Step 6: If the folder doesn’t exist, it will come up with a notification window. You will need to confirm your request by clicking on the “OK” button.

Step 7: When you click on the “OK” button, after a few moments you will be informed by a notification window, if the Volume is created successfully.

Step 8: Hit the “OK” button on the notification window and the Volume will appear in the “Volumes” list.