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NetBackup™ Backup Planning and Performance Tuning Guide

Media configuration guidelines

This section includes the following topics:
  • About dedicated versus shared backup environments

  • Suggestions for NetBackup media pools

  • Disk versus tape: performance considerations

  • NetBackup media not available

  • About the threshold for media errors

  • Adjusting the media_error_threshold

  • About tape I/O error handling

  • About NetBackup media manager tape drive selection

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