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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section III. Configuring storage
  4. Configuring tape media
  5. About WORM media
  6. Disabling WORM volume pool name verification
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Disabling WORM volume pool name verification

If you use unique drive and media types to manage WORM media, disable NetBackup volume pool name verification. WORM volume pool name verification is used only for the WORM volume pool method of managing WORM media.

See About using unique drive and media types to manage WORM media.

To disable the volume pool name verification

  • Create the following touch file on the media server of the WORM drive:

    On Windows:

    install_path\NetBackup\db\config\DISABLE_WORM_POOLCHECK

    On UNIX:

    /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/DISABLE_WORM_POOLCHECK

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