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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II
  3. Additional configuration
  4. About the Shared Storage Option
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II

About the Shared Storage Option

The Shared Storage Option allows multiple NetBackup servers (both NetBackup servers and NDMP hosts) to share individual tape drives (standalone drives or drives in a robotic library). NetBackup automatically allocates and unallocates the drives as backup and restore operations require. The Shared Storage Option requires appropriate hardware connectivity. For example, a fibre channel hub.

You can use Shared Storage Option in the following environments:

  • Fibre Channel SANs

  • Environments that do not use Fibre Channel, such as SCSI switches or multi-initiator configurations

The Shared Storage Option is a separately licensed and purchased NetBackup option that lets you share a specific number of physical drives.

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