Veritas NetBackup™ Vault™ Administrator's Guide

The options available for adding media to containers are as follows:

• Enter the container ID and media IDs by typing them in with the keyboard. Using this method, you can add media to more than one container.

• Scan the container ID and media IDs by using a keyboard interface barcode reader. (Keyboard interface readers are also known as keyboard wedge readers because they connect, or wedge, between the keyboard and the keyboard port on your computer.) Using this method, you can add media to more than one container.

• Read an input file that contains the IDs or numeric equivalents of barcodes of all the media to be added to one container. If you have a barcode reader that can write to a file, you can scan media barcodes and use that output file as input for the vltcontainers command.

• Add all the media that is ejected by a specific session to one container.

You also can delete a container from the NetBackup and Media Manager databases. The following describes when you should delete an empty container:

• If a container becomes empty due to moving media to other containers, Vault deletes that empty container.

• If a container becomes empty due to a media inject, the empty container remains and the user will have to manually delete it using the vltcontainers command. The following example shows you how to delete container ABC123 from the NetBackup and Media Manager catalogs.

  vltcontainers -delete -vltcid ABC123

  Note:

  The container must be empty before it can be deleted.