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
Using this guide
Use this guide to help set up and configure the operating systems of the hosts you use for NetBackup servers. Also use this guide for help with storage devices. This guide provides guidance about NetBackup requirements; it does not replace the vendor documentation.
This guide is organized as follows:
Information about operating systems.
Information about robotic storage devices.
Read the "Before you start" sections (if applicable) of the chapters in this guide. These sections provide any important platform-specific instructions or may contain specific instructions or limitations for server types.
Veritas tested the configuration file options in this guide; other configuration settings may also work.
To minimize configuration errors, you can copy and paste configuration details from a text file of the operating system chapters of this configuration guide. The format of this text file is similar to the printed version of the guide. Be sure to review the differences as explained at the beginning of the text file.
The NetBackup_DeviceConfig_Guide.txt file is installed with NetBackup server software in the following paths:
/usr/openv/volmgr(UNIX)install_path\Veritas\Volmgr(Windows)
The Hardware Compatibility List contains information about supported devices.
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