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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section III. Configuring storage
  4. Configuring robots and tape drives
  5. Downloading the device mapping files
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Downloading the device mapping files

Use the following procedure to download the current device mapping files and update the NetBackup Enterprise Media Manager database with their information.

See About the device mapping files.

To download the current device mapping files

  1. Open the NetBackup compatibility lists knowledge base article at the following URL:

    http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility

  2. In the NetBackup Device Mapping Files row in the table in the Solutions section, select the link for your operating system.

    A Veritas Knowledge Base article appears that contains installation instructions and an archive file of the device mappings.

  3. Download the archive file, either a .tar or .zip depending on operating system.
  4. Follow the instructions in the Readme.txt file in the archive to update the device mappings. The Readme.txt file contains instructions for both Windows and UNIX operating systems.

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