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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II
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  4. How NetBackup selects media
  5. About selecting media in standalone drives
  6. About disabling standalone drive extensions
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II

About disabling standalone drive extensions

Disable the standalone drive extensions by clearing the NetBackup media server host property, Enable standalone drive extensions. If this property is cleared, NetBackup uses the same method to select media for standalone drives as it uses for robotic drives.

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