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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 path
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Changing a tape drive path

Use the following procedure to change a drive path.

To change a drive path

  1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, expand Media and Device Management > Devices > Drives. Double-click the drive that you want to change.
  2. In the Change Tape Drive dialog box, select the drive path in the Host and Path information list. Click Change.
  3. In the Change Path dialog box, configure the properties for the drive path.

    The properties you can change depend on drive type, server platform, or NetBackup server type.

    See About SCSI reserve on drive paths.

    See Drive path options.

  4. Click OK to save the changes.

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