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NetBackup™ Installation Guide

Last Published: 2024-03-27

Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.4)

About the Device Configuration Wizard

Before you can run backups, you must define your storage devices for NetBackup. This wizard guides you through this process. You must, however, be certain that you have configured your storage devices correctly for your operating system. NetBackup cannot function reliably unless devices are installed and configured correctly.

See About storage device configuration.

For clustered environments, begin configuring all storage devices from the active node. For a NetBackup failover server, Veritas recommends that you attach all of the devices to every node on which NetBackup is installed.

For complete instructions, refer to the NetBackup Clustered Primary Server Administrator's Guide.

This wizard takes you through the following processes:

Scans the hosts for backup devices
Verifies the devices that were automatically detected
Verifies and corrects the drive configuration
Updates the device configuration

The wizard presents the following information when you configure devices:

Device configuration

When the wizard displays the Device Hosts screen, you must specify the hosts on which to auto-discover and configure devices (NetBackup Enterprise servers only).
When the wizard displays the Backup Devices screen, confirm that the list of devices is complete and accurate. If a known backup device does not appear in this list, take the following action:
- Verify that the backup device is physically attached to the host.
- Verify that all that specified device and operating system vendor installation procedures are performed successfully.
- Verify that all drives correspond to the proper device. If you need to move a drive, select the drive and drag it to the correct location.
For clusters, ensure that you perform storage device configuration on each node. Begin on the active node, then move the NetBackup active node to another node and perform the storage device configuration on that node. Repeat for each node of the cluster on which NetBackup runs.
Note:
By default, robotic daemons and NetBackup add-on products do not cause NetBackup to failover if they fail. You can configure robotic devices and NetBackup add-on products to fail over NetBackup if the robot or the add-on product fails. The operating system must recognize the robots as configured before you can configure NetBackup to failover. For complete details about fail over configuration, refer to the NetBackup Clustered Primary Server Administrator's Guide.

Defining storage units

You define storage units from the Configure Storage Units screen. If your system does not have a tape device, you can store data on a disk by defining disk storage units.
When you enter a path for a storage unit, the following rules apply:
- Use the correct path separators (forward slash (/) for UNIX and backward slash (\) for Windows).
- Use a colon (:) to specify a drive separation on Windows platforms.
- Use the following characters only:
  Alphabetic characters (ASCII A-Z, a-z)
  Numeric characters (0-9)
  Miscellaneous characters: plus (+), minus (-), underscore (_), or period (.)

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