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  2. NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
  3. Section IV. Configuring storage
  4. Configuring robots and tape drives
  5. About configuring robots and tapes drives in NetBackup
NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide

About configuring robots and tapes drives in NetBackup

Before you configure the robots and tape drives in NetBackup, they must be attached to the computer and recognized by the operating system. The server platforms that NetBackup supports may require operating system configuration changes to allow device discovery.

Use the Configure drives and robots wizard to add, modify, update, and delete the following types of devices in NetBackup:

  • Robots, including those attached to NDMP hosts and ACS hosts.

  • Tape drives, including those attached to NDMP hosts and ACS hosts.

  • Shared drives (for NetBackup Shared Storage Option configurations only.)

The wizard discovers the devices that are attached to the media servers and helps to configure them.

Before configuring robots and drives, read the following topics to understand the process.

More Information

About device serialization

About robot control

About drive name rules

Correlating tape drives and device files on UNIX hosts

Correlating tape drives and SCSI addresses on Windows hosts

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