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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section III. Configuring storage
  4. Configuring robots and tape drives
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Configuring robots and tape drives

This section includes the following topics:
  • NetBackup robot types

  • About the device mapping files

  • Downloading the device mapping files

  • About configuring robots and tape drives in NetBackup

  • Configuring robots and tape drives by using the wizard

  • Updating the device configuration by using the wizard

  • Adding a robot to NetBackup manually

  • Managing robots

  • Adding a tape drive to NetBackup manually

  • Configuring drive name rules

  • Adding a tape drive path

  • Adding a shared tape drive to a NetBackup environment

  • Correlating tape drives and SCSI addresses on Windows hosts

  • Correlating tape drives and device files on UNIX hosts

  • Managing tape drives

  • Performing device diagnostics

  • Verifying the device configuration

  • About automatic path correction

  • Enabling automatic path correction

  • Replacing a device

  • Updating device firmware

  • About the NetBackup Device Manager

  • About external access to NetBackup controlled devices on UNIX

  • Stopping and restarting the device manager

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