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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section III. Configuring storage
  4. Inventorying robots
  5. About comparing a robot's contents with the volume configuration
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

About comparing a robot's contents with the volume configuration

Compare contents with volume configuration compares the contents of a robotic library with the contents of the EMM database. Regardless of the result, the database is not changed.

Table: Compare contents description

Robot and media

Report contents

The robot can read barcodes

The report shows the differences between the robot and the EMM database

The robot cannot read barcodes

The report shows only whether a slot contains a volume

If the media cave barcodes, this operation is useful for determining if volumes have been physically moved within a robot.

For API robots

The media ID and media type in the EMM database are compared to the information that is received from the vendor's robotic library software.

If the results show that the EMM database does not match the contents of the robotic library, perform the following actions:

  • Physically move the volume.

  • Update the EMM database. Use Actions > Move or use the Update volume configuration option.

See About updating the NetBackup volume configuration.

The following figure shows a sample compare report.

Figure: Compare contents report (API robot)

Compare contents report (API robot)

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