Locking and unlocking the VOB
A VOB backup is valid only if the VOB has been locked for all users before the backup begins.
About this task
You must be the VOB owner or privileged user to lock or unlock
a VOB. Several GUIs support VOB locking, as do the cleartool lock and unlock commands.
- You can use the HCL
VersionVault Administration
Console to lock or unlock a VOB on a host that runs any supported operating
system:
- Navigate to the VOB storage node for the VOB. This is a subnode of the host node for the host where the VOB storage directory resides.
- Click . In the Properties of VOB window, click the Lock page.
- On a Windows® host, you can lock or unlock a VOB in Windows Explorer. Click , and then click the Lock page.
- On the command-line, use the cleartool lock and unlock commands.