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Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II
Last Published:
2017-06-28
Product(s):
NetBackup (8.0)
- NetBackup licensing models and the nbdeployutil utility
- Additional configuration
- About dynamic host name and IP addressing
- About busy file processing on UNIX clients
- About the Shared Storage Option
- About configuring the Shared Storage Option in NetBackup
- Viewing SSO summary reports
- About the vm.conf configuration file
- Holds Management
- Menu user interfaces on UNIX
- About the tpconfig device configuration utility
- About the NetBackup Disk Configuration Utility
- Reference topics
- Host name rules
- About reading backup images with nbtar or tar32.exe
- Factors that affect backup time
- NetBackup notify scripts
- Media and device management best practices
- About TapeAlert
- About tape drive cleaning
- How NetBackup reserves drives
- About SCSI persistent reserve
- About the SPC-2 SCSI reserve process
- About checking for data loss
- About checking for tape and driver configuration errors
- How NetBackup selects media
- About Tape I/O commands on UNIX
About spanning media with automatic media selection
After an end of media (EOM) is reached, automatic media selection depends on whether NetBackup is configured to allow backups to span media, as follows:
NetBackup spans media if the NetBackup
host property is specified for the server.In this case, NetBackup uses another volume to start the next fragment and the resulting backup is composed of fragments on different volumes.
NetBackup does not span media if the media
property is not specified.In this case, the backup terminates abnormally and the operation is retried according to the NetBackup Global Attributes host property,
.