Veritas NetBackup™ Device Configuration Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.3.0.1, 8.3, 8.2, 8.1.2)
  1. Introducing device configuration
    1.  
      Using this guide
    2. General device configuration sequence
      1.  
        Configuration cautions
    3.  
      About the NetBackup compatibility lists
  2. Section I. Operating systems
    1. Linux
      1.  
        Before you begin on Linux
      2. About the required Linux SCSI drivers
        1.  
          About the st driver debug mode
      3.  
        Verifying the Linux drivers
      4. About configuring robot and drive control for Linux
        1.  
          About the Linux robotic control device files
        2.  
          About the Linux tape drive device files
      5.  
        Verifying the device configuration on Linux
      6.  
        About SAN clients on Linux
      7.  
        About SCSI persistent bindings for Linux
      8.  
        About Emulex HBAs
      9.  
        Utilities to test SCSI devices
      10.  
        Linux command summary
    2. Solaris
      1.  
        Before you begin on Solaris
      2.  
        About the NetBackup sg driver
      3.  
        Determining if the NetBackup sg driver is installed
      4.  
        Special configuration for the StorEdge Network Foundation HBA driver
      5.  
        About binding Fibre Channel HBA drivers
      6.  
        Configuring Solaris 10 x86 for multiple drive paths
      7. Installing/reinstalling the sg and the st drivers
        1.  
          st.conf file example
        2.  
          sg.conf file example
        3.  
          sg.links file example
      8.  
        Configuring 6 GB and larger SAS HBAs in Solaris
      9.  
        Preventing Solaris driver unloading
      10. About Solaris robotic controls
        1.  
          About SCSI and FCP robotic controls on Solaris
        2.  
          Examples of SCSI and FCP robotic control device files on Solaris
      11. About Solaris tape drive device files
        1.  
          About Berkeley-style close
        2.  
          About no rewind device files on Solaris
        3.  
          About fast-tape positioning (locate-block) on Solaris
        4.  
          About SPC-2 SCSI reserve on Solaris
        5.  
          Disabling SPC-2 SCSI reserve on Solaris
        6.  
          About nonstandard tape drives
      12. Configuring Solaris SAN clients to recognize FT media servers
        1.  
          Adding the FT device entry to the st.conf file
        2.  
          Modifying the st.conf file so that Solaris discovers devices on two LUNS
      13.  
        Uninstalling the sg driver on Solaris
      14.  
        Solaris command summary
    3. Windows
      1.  
        Before you begin configuring NetBackup on Windows
      2.  
        About tape device drivers on Windows
      3.  
        Attaching devices to a Windows system
  3. Section II. Robotic storage devices
    1. Robot overview
      1.  
        NetBackup robot types
      2. NetBackup robot attributes
        1.  
          ACS robots
        2.  
          TLD robots
      3.  
        Table-driven robotics
      4.  
        Robotic test utilities
      5. Robotic processes
        1.  
          Processes by robot type
        2.  
          Robotic process example
    2. Oracle StorageTek ACSLS robots
      1.  
        About Oracle StorageTek ACSLS robots
      2.  
        Sample ACSLS configurations
      3.  
        Media requests for an ACS robot
      4.  
        About configuring ACS drives
      5.  
        Configuring shared ACS drives
      6.  
        Adding tapes to ACS robots
      7. About removing tapes from ACS robots
        1.  
          Removing tapes using the ACSLS utility
        2.  
          Removing tapes using NetBackup
      8. Robot inventory operations on ACS robots
        1.  
          Configuring a robot inventory filtering on ACS robots
      9. NetBackup robotic control, communication, and logging
        1.  
          NetBackup robotic control, communication, and logging for Windows systems
        2. NetBackup robotic control, communication, and logging for UNIX systems
          1.  
            NetBackup ACS daemon (acsd)
          2.  
            NetBackup ACS SSI event logger (acssel)
          3.  
            Using acssel with a different socket name
          4.  
            NetBackup ACS storage server interface (acsssi)
          5.  
            About the ACS_SSI_SOCKET configuration option
          6.  
            Starting acsssi manually
          7.  
            Optional environment variables
      10. ACS robotic test utility
        1.  
          acstest on Windows systems
        2.  
          acstest on UNIX systems
      11.  
        Changing your ACS robotic configuration
      12. ACS configurations supported
        1.  
          Multiple ACS robots with one ACS library software host
        2.  
          Multiple ACS robots and ACS library software hosts
      13.  
        Oracle StorageTek ACSLS firewall configuration
    3. Device configuration examples
      1.  
        An ACS robot on a Windows server example
      2.  
        An ACS robot on a UNIX server example

About Solaris tape drive device files

NetBackup uses the tape drive device files that support compression, no rewind on close, and Berkeley style close.

When you configure the Solaris st driver, Solaris creates the device files for the attached tape devices

See Installing/reinstalling the sg and the st drivers.

The device files are in the /dev/rmt directory, and they have the following format:

/dev/rmt/IDcbn

The following describe the device file names:

  • ID is the logical drive number as shown by the NetBackup sgscan command.

  • c indicates compression.

  • b indicates Berkeley-style close.

  • n indicates no rewind on close.

If you use device discovery in NetBackup, NetBackup discovers the device files and hence the devices. If you add a tape drive to a NetBackup configuration manually, you must specify the pathname to the device file. NetBackup requires compression, no rewind on close, and Berkeley-style close device files.

To display the tape device files that are configured on your system, use the sgscan command with the tape parameter, as follows:

# /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/sgscan tape
/dev/sg/c1tw500104f0008d53c3l0: Tape (/dev/rmt/0): "HP      Ultrium 3-SCSI"
/dev/sg/c1tw500104f0008d53c6l0: Tape (/dev/rmt/1): "HP      Ultrium 3-SCSI"
/dev/sg/c1tw500104f0008d53c9l0: Tape (/dev/rmt/2): "IBM     ULTRIUM-TD3"
/dev/sg/c1tw500104f0008d53ccl0: Tape (/dev/rmt/3): "IBM     ULTRIUM-TD3"
/dev/sg/c2t2l0: Tape (/dev/rmt/22): "HP      Ultrium 3-SCSI"                                                                        
/dev/sg/c2t3l0: Tape (/dev/rmt/10): "HP      Ultrium 3-SCSI"                                                                        
/dev/sg/c2tal0: Tape (/dev/rmt/18): "IBM      ULTRIUM-TD3"                                                                           
/dev/sg/c2tbl0: Tape (/dev/rmt/19): "IBM      ULTRIUM-TD3"

The following are examples of no-rewind, compression, Berkeley-style close device files from the preceding sgscan example output:

  • For the Ultrium3 SCSI drive at LUN 0 of World Wide Node Name (WWNN) 500104f0008d53c3, the device file pathname is:

    /dev/rmt/0cbn

  • For the HP Ultrium3 SCSI drive at SCSI ID 2 of adapter 2, the device file pathname is:

    /dev/rmt/22cbn

You can show all device types by using the all option. The output can help you associate tape devices with other SCSI devices that may be configured on the same adapter. The following is the sgscan usage statement:

sgscan [all|basic|changer|disk|tape] [conf] [-v]