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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section III. Configuring storage
  4. Inventorying robots
  5. About the vmphyinv physical inventory utility
  6. How vmphyinv performs a physical inventory
  7. How vmphyinv mounts the media and reads the tape header
  8. About the media that vmphyinv does not recognize
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

About the media that vmphyinv does not recognize

If the media is not NetBackup media, the media is unmounted and the next media is mounted. vmphyinv does not generate a new record in the EMM database. To generate volume records for that media, use the vmupdate command.

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