Veritas NetBackup™ Device Configuration Guide
- Introducing device configuration
- Section I. Operating systems
- AIX
- About configuring tape drive device files in AIX
- Creating AIX no rewind device files for tape drives
- HP-UX
- About device drivers and files for HP-UX persistent DSFs
- About configuring persistent DSFs
- About HP-UX legacy device drivers and files
- About configuring legacy device files
- Linux
- About the required Linux SCSI drivers
- About configuring robot and drive control for Linux
- Solaris
- Installing/reinstalling the sg and the st drivers
- About Solaris robotic controls
- About Solaris tape drive device files
- Configuring Solaris SAN clients to recognize FT media servers
- Windows
- AIX
- Section II. Robotic storage devices
- Robot overview
- Oracle StorageTek ACSLS robots
- About removing tapes from ACS robots
- Robot inventory operations on ACS robots
- NetBackup robotic control, communication, and logging
- ACS robotic test utility
- ACS configurations supported
- Device configuration examples
About HP-UX device addressing schemes
NetBackup supports the following two HP-UX device addressing schemes for mass storage devices:
Agile addressing, which was introduced in HP-UX 11i v3. Agile addressing uses persistent device special files (DSFs) for devices.
NetBackup device discovery finds persistent DSFs only. Therefore, Veritas recommends that you use persistent DSFs.
See About device drivers and files for HP-UX persistent DSFs.
The legacy naming model.
Legacy device files are supported in HP-UX 11i v3 and earlier.
If you use the legacy model, you must configure devices manually in NetBackup. You cannot use NetBackup device discovery and automatic configuration.
When HP-UX 11i v3 is installed, both legacy and persistent DSFs are created on the system. Both types of DSFs can coexist and may be used simultaneously to access mass storage devices.
NetBackup requires specific device file capabilities for tape drives.
See HP-UX tape drive device file requirements for NetBackup.
You may be required to perform other HP-UX configuration.
See About SPC-2 SCSI reserve on HP-UX.
See Creating device files for SAN Clients on HP-UX.
See About disabling the HP-UX EMS Tape Device Monitor for a SAN.