Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II
- NetBackup licensing models and usage reporting
- How capacity licensing works
- Creating and viewing the licensing report
- Reviewing a capacity licensing report
- Reconciling the capacity licensing report results
- Reviewing a traditional licensing report
- Reviewing an NEVC licensing report
- Additional configuration
- About dynamic host name and IP addressing
- About busy file processing on UNIX clients
- About the Shared Storage Option
- DELETE 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
API_BARCODE_RULES entry in vm.conf
The following configuration entry applies to NetBackup servers:
API_BARCODE_RULES
If this entry is specified in vm.conf, barcode rule support for API robots is enabled.
NetBackup barcode rules allow default media mappings to be overridden. Barcode rules are especially useful when multiple generations of the same tape drive use the same type of media.
For example STK 9940A and STK 9940B drives use STK1R media, but write data at different densities. The drive must be configured by using different drive types such as HCART or HCART2. Specify a barcode rule for a series of bar codes to configure some of the media as HCART2. Other STK1R media not in this barcode range are configured as HCART (the default for STK1R). Without this entry, a robot inventory operation configures all media of type STK1R as either HCART or HCART2, depending on how the drive was configured.