Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II
- NetBackup licensing models and the nbdeployutil utility
- About NetBackup licensing models
- nbdeployutil utility options
- Creating and viewing the licensing report
- After creating a traditional licensing report
- After creating a capacity licensing report
- Reconciling the capacity licensing report results
- 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
Device Monitor and Shared Storage Option
You can use the Device Monitor in the NetBackup Administration Console to obtain information about your Shared Storage Option configuration and manage your shared drives. See the following:
For more information about the Device Monitor, see the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I:
http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332
Table: Device Monitor information describes information you can glean from the Device Monitor.
Table: Device Monitor information
Action | Information |
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Drive Status pane | The Control and Device Host columns contain shared drive information. |
Changing the operating mode for a shared drive | For a shared drive, the Change Mode dialog contains a list of all paths to the selected drive. You can choose any number of paths to which the mode change applies. |
Adding or changing a comment for a shared drive | For a shared drive, the Change Drive Comment dialog box contains the following:
You can choose any number of paths to which the changes apply. |
Performing drive cleaning functions for a shared drive | The three available drive cleaning functions are used with shared drives are as follows:
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