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Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II
Last Published:
2021-06-07
Product(s):
NetBackup (9.1)
- 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
Media formats
NetBackup writes media in a format that allows the position to be verified before NetBackup appends new backups.
The following table shows the symbols that are used in the media format descriptions.
Table: Media format symbols
Symbol | Description |
---|---|
MH |
Media header (1024 bytes). |
* |
Tape mark. |
BH |
Backup header (1024 bytes). |
BH1 ... BHn |
Backup headers (1024 bytes). One for each job that is part of the set of the jobs that are multiplexed. |
Image |
Data from the backup. |
EH |
Empty backup header, which is used for position validation. |
The following table provides more information about how the media formats are used in different situations.
Table: Media format descriptions