Veritas NetBackup™ Device Configuration Guide
- Introducing device configuration
- Section I. Operating systems
- AIX
- Before you begin configuring NetBackup on AIX
- RS/6000 AIX adapter number conventions
- About AIX persistent naming support
- About configuring robotic control device files in AIX
- About device files for SAN Clients on AIX
- About configuring tape drive device files in AIX
- About choosing a tape driver on AIX
- About non-QIC tape drives on AIX
- About extended-file marks for drives
- About fast-tape positioning (locate-block) on AIX
- About no rewind device files on AIX
- Creating AIX no rewind device files for tape drives
- Using multiple tape densities on AIX
- About SPC-2 SCSI reserve on AIX
- Disabling SPC-2 SCSI reserve in AIX
- About Sony AIT drives on AIX
- AIX command summary
- HP-UX
- Before you begin configuring NetBackup on HP-UX
- About robotic control on HP-UX
- About HP-UX device addressing schemes
- HP-UX tape drive device file requirements for NetBackup
- About device drivers and files for HP-UX persistent DSFs
- About configuring persistent DSFs
- About HP-UX legacy device drivers and files
- Creating device files for SAN Clients on HP-UX
- About configuring legacy device files
- About SPC-2 SCSI reserve on HP-UX
- Disabling SPC-2 SCSI reserve in HP-UX
- About disabling the HP-UX EMS Tape Device Monitor for a SAN
- HP-UX command summary
- Linux
- Before you begin on Linux
- About the required Linux SCSI drivers
- Verifying the Linux drivers
- About configuring robot and drive control for Linux
- Verifying the device configuration on Linux
- About SAN clients on Linux
- About SCSI persistent bindings for Linux
- About Emulex HBAs
- Utilities to test SCSI devices
- Linux command summary
- Solaris
- Before you begin on Solaris
- About the NetBackup sg driver
- Determining if the NetBackup sg driver is installed
- Special configuration for the Oracle StorEdge Network Foundation HBA driver
- About binding Fibre Channel HBA drivers
- Configuring Solaris 10 x86 for multiple drive paths
- Installing/reinstalling the sg and the st drivers
- Configuring 6 GB and larger SAS HBAs in Solaris
- Preventing Solaris driver unloading
- About Solaris robotic controls
- About Solaris tape drive device files
- Configuring Solaris SAN clients to recognize FT media servers
- Uninstalling the sg driver on Solaris
- Solaris command summary
- Windows
- AIX
- Section II. Robotic storage devices
- Robot overview
- Oracle StorageTek ACSLS robots
- About Oracle StorageTek ACSLS robots
- Sample ACSLS configurations
- Media requests for an ACS robot
- About configuring ACS drives
- Configuring shared ACS drives
- Adding tapes to ACS robots
- About removing tapes from ACS robots
- Robot inventory operations on ACS robots
- NetBackup robotic control, communication, and logging
- ACS robotic test utility
- Changing your ACS robotic configuration
- ACS configurations supported
- Oracle StorageTek ACSLS firewall configuration
- Device configuration examples
Processes by robot type
The following table describes the robotic processes and robotic control processes for each robot type.
Table: Robotic processes and robotic control processes
Robot type | Process | Description |
|---|---|---|
Automated Cartridge System (ACS) | acsd | The NetBackup ACS daemon acsd provides robotic control to mount and dismount volumes. It also requests inventories of the volumes that are under the control of ACS library software. |
acssel | The NetBackup ACS storage server interface (SSI) event logger acssel logs events. UNIX and Linux only. | |
acsssi | The NetBackup ACS storage server interface (SSI) acsssi communicates with the ACS library software host. acsssi processes all RPC communications from acsd or from the ACS robotic test utility that are intended for the ACS library software. UNIX and Linux only. | |
Tape library DLT (TLD) | tldd | The tape library DLT daemon tldd runs on a NetBackup server that has a drive in the tape library DLT. This process receives NetBackup Device Manager requests to mount and unmount volumes, and sends these requests to the robotic-control process, tldcd. |
tldcd | The tape library DLT Control daemon tldcd communicates with the tape library DLT robotics through a SCSI interface. For library sharing, tldcd runs on the NetBackup server that has the robotic control. | |
Tape library 4MM (TL4) | tl4d | The tape library 4MM daemon tl4d runs on the host that has a tape library 4MM. This process receives NetBackup Device Manager requests to mount and unmount volumes and communicates these requests to the robotics through a SCSI interface. |
Tape library 8MM (TL8) | tl8d | The tape library 8MM daemon tl8d runs on a NetBackup server that has a drive in the tape library 8MM. This process receives NetBackup Device Manager requests to mount and unmount volumes, and sends these requests to the robotic-control process, tl8cd. |
tl8cd | The tape library 8MM Control daemon tl8cd communicates with the TL8 robotics through a SCSI interface. For library sharing, tl8cd runs on the NetBackup server that has the robotic control. | |
Tape library Half-inch (TLH) | tlhd | The tape library Half-inch daemon tlhd runs on each NetBackup server that has a drive in the tape library Half-inch. This process receives NetBackup Device Manager requests to mount and unmount volumes and sends these requests to the robotic-control process. |
tlhcd | The tape library half-inch control daemon tlhcd runs on the NetBackup server that has the robotic control. It communicates with the TLH robotics through a SCSI interface | |
Tape library Multimedia (TLM) | tlmd | tlmd runs on the NetBackup server and communicates mount and unmount requests to the host that controls the TLM robotics. |
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