Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Unlocking a Transfer Disk

Unlock a transfer disk for a disk import transfer job.

If you need to unlock the transfer disk, you are prompted for the encryption passphrase that was generated when you created the transfer disk.

Using the Data Transfer Utility

Use the dts disk unlock command and required parameters to unlock a transfer disk for a disk import transfer job.

dts disk unlock --job-id job_id --disk-label disk_label --block-device block_device --encryption-passphrase encryption_passphrase

Run dts disk unlock --help to view the complete list of flags and variable options.

For example:

dts disk unlock --job-id ocid1.datatransferjob.oci1..exampleuniqueID --disk-label DNKZQ1XKC --block-device /dev/sdb --encryption-passphrase passphrase					

Encryption passphrase ('q' to quit):
enabled cleartext read/write on device
Unlocked and mounted disk.