Ransomware attackers specifically target and attempt to destroy backup systems to increase the probability of payment. Hardening your system is critical. Please ensure you have reviewed your platform security using the Security Hardening Checklist
Cohesity

COHESITY Documentation

Explore our documentation to get started, discover products & new features, access troubleshooting guides, register sources, platforms support.

Products
Data Security Alliance
Visit Cohesity.com
Demos
Support
Blogs
Developers
Partner Portals
Cohesity Community
© 2026 Cohesity, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Terms of Use|
Privacy Policy|
Legal|
  1. Home
  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II
  3. Reference topics
  4. Media and device management processes
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II

Media and device management processes

Table Table: Starting services and processes shows the NetBackup services and processes that control storage devices with removable media. NetBackup starts the processes as needed, but you can start some of them manually. The table also shows the commands that start each one.

These commands are located in the following directories:

UNIX

/usr/openv/volmgr/bin

Windows

install_path\VERITAS\Volmgr\bin

For detailed information about the commands, see the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide, available at the following URL:

http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332

Table: Starting services and processes

Command

Description

acsd

The Automated Cartridge System robotic process. The Device Manager ltid starts this process.

avrd

The Automatic Volume Recognition process. The Device Manager ltid starts this process.

ltid

Starts the NetBackup Device Manager service. Starting the Device Manager also starts the robotic, robotic control, Media Manager volume, and automatic volume recognition daemons.

To stop the device, robotic, and robotic-control services, use the stopltid command.

tldcd

Starts the tape library DLT robotic-control process. The Device Manager ltid starts this process.

To stop the tape library DLT robotic-control process, use tldcd -t.

tldd

The tape library DLT robotic process. The Device Manager ltid starts this process.

vmd

The NetBackup Volume Manager service. The Device Manager ltid starts this process.

On UNIX, you can use the kill pid command to stop the process for the daemon with the specified pid (process ID).

On Windows, you can start and stop services by using the Services tool available in Administrative Tools in the Microsoft Windows Control Panel. If they are started from the command line, some services occupy that NetBackup Console session until they are stopped.

For detailed information about most of the commands that are in the following tables, see the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide, available at the following URL:

http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332

Feedback

Was this page helpful?
Previous

Media formats

Next

About Tape I/O commands on UNIX

Feedback

Was this page helpful?