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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section III. Configuring storage
  4. Configuring robots and tape drives
  5. Managing tape drives
  6. Changing a tape drive to a shared drive
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Changing a tape drive to a shared drive

Change a drive to a shared drive by adding paths to a currently configured drive.

To configure and use a shared drive, a Shared Storage Option license is required on each master server and media server.

To change a drive to a shared drive

  1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, expand Media and Device Management > Devices.
  2. Select Drives in the tree pane.
  3. Select the drive you want to change in the Drives pane.
  4. Click Edit > Change.
  5. In the Change Tape Drive dialog box, click Add.
  6. In the Add Path dialog box, configure the properties for the hosts and paths that share the drive.

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