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  3. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  5. Section III. Configuring storage
  7. Inventorying robots
  9. About the vmphyinv physical inventory utility
  11. How vmphyinv performs a physical inventory
  13. How vmphyinv mounts the media and reads the tape header
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

How vmphyinv mounts the media and reads the tape header

The following sequence of operations explains the mount process:

  • The vmphyinv utility contacts the NetBackup Volume Manager, vmd, on the local host or remote host depending on where the drive is attached.

  • The NetBackup Volume Manager starts a process, oprd.

  • The vmphyinv utility communicates with oprd and sends the mount request to oprd. After oprd receives the request, it issues a mount request to ltid.

  • The vmphyinv utility reads the tape header to determine the recorded media ID or globally unique identifier (GUID).

    Note:

    The default mount timeout is 15 minutes. Specify a different mount time by using the -mount_timeout option.

See About the media that vmphyinv does not recognize.

See How vmphyinv processes cleaning media.

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