Veritas NetBackup™ Device Configuration Guide
- Introducing device configuration
- Section I. Operating systems
- 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 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
- Linux
- 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
TLD robots
The following table describes the tape library DLT attributes.
Table: TLD robot attributes
Attribute | NetBackup Server | NetBackup Enterprise Server |
|---|---|---|
API robot | No | No |
SCSI control | Yes | Yes |
LAN control | Not Applicable | No |
Remote robot control | Not Applicable | Yes |
NDMP support | Yes | Yes |
Shared drives support | Not Applicable | Yes |
Drive cleaning support | Yes | Yes |
Media access port support | Yes | Yes |
NetBackup tracks slots | Yes | Yes |
Hosts supported | Windows, UNIX, and Linux. | Windows, UNIX, and Linux. |
Media type support | DLT, DLT2, DLT3, DTF, 8MM, 8MM2, 8MM3, QIC, HCART, HCART2, HCART3 | DLT, DLT2, DLT3, DTF, 8MM, 8MM2, 8MM3, QIC, HCART, HCART2, HCART3 |
Barcode support | Yes. Barcodes can be from 1 to 16 characters in length. The Media Manager media ID is six or fewer characters. | Yes. Barcodes can be from 1 to 16 characters in length. The Media Manager media ID is six or fewer characters. |
Robot examples | HPE MSL, Fujitsu FibreCAT TX48, IBM TotalStorage3583, Spectra Logic T680, Sun/Oracle SL3000 | HPE MSL, Fujitsu FibreCAT TX48, IBM TotalStorage3583, Spectra Logic T680, Sun/Oracle SL3000 |