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

About configuring robots and tape drives in NetBackup

Before you configure robots and tape drives in NetBackup, they must be attached to the computer and recognized by the operating system. The server platforms that NetBackup supports may require operating system configuration changes to allow device discovery.

The NetBackup Device Configuration Guide provides information about how to configure device drivers for the systems that NetBackup supports. See the Guide at the following URL:

http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332

Configure robots and tape drives in NetBackup as follows:

Device Configuration Wizard

Veritas recommends using the Device Configuration Wizard to add, configure, and update the following types of devices in NetBackup:

  • Robots, including those attached to NDMP hosts

  • Tape drives, including those attached to NDMP hosts

  • Shared drives (for NetBackup Shared Storage Option configurations only)

See Configuring robots and tape drives by using the wizard.

The wizard discovers the devices that are attached to the media servers and helps to configure them.

See About configuring robots and tape drives in NetBackup.

Manually

Alternatively, add robots and drives manually as follows:

  • Use menu options in the NetBackup Administration Console.

    See Adding a robot to NetBackup manually.

    See Adding a tape drive to NetBackup manually.

  • Use NetBackup commands.

    See the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide, available at the following URL:

    http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332

Manual methods do not use device discovery.

To add a robot and drives, first add the robot and then add the drives that are in the robot.

Before configuring robots and drives, read the following topics to understand the process.

More Information

About device serialization

About adding devices without discovery

About robot control

About drive name rules

Correlating tape drives and device files on UNIX hosts

Correlating tape drives and SCSI addresses on Windows hosts

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