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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
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

How vmphyinv performs a physical inventory

For a physical inventory, the vmphyinv utility performs the following sequence of operations:

  • Obtains a list of drives to mount the media

    See About the vmphyinv list of drives.

  • Obtains a list of media to mount

    See About the media that vmphyinv mounts.

  • Mounts the media and reads the tape headers

    See How vmphyinv mounts the media and reads the tape header.

  • Updates the EMM database

    See How vmphyinv updates the EMM database.

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