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Veritas NetBackup™ Device Configuration Guide
Last Published:
2018-02-16
Product(s):
NetBackup (8.1.1, 8.1)
- 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
About extended-file marks for drives
If a tape drive supports extended file marks, you must configure it to use them (for example, 8-mm drives). Otherwise, NetBackup may not be able to use those drives.
For information, see the AIX chdev(1) and smit(1) man pages.
When you add a tape drive to NetBackup, NetBackup issues the chdev command to configure the drive to use extended file marks. For reference, the following is the command that NetBackup uses:
/usr/sbin/chdev -l Dev -a extfm=yes
Replace Dev with the logical identifier for the drive (such as rmt0 or rmt1)
Therefore, you do not have to configure the drive manually for extended file marks.