Before you start
Observe the following points when you configure the operating system:
■ Verify that NetBackup supports your server platform and devices. The Symantec support Web site contains server platform compatibility information. For the compatibility information, see the Compatibility List for NetBackup Server or NetBackup Enterprise Server. The following is the URL:
http://entsupport.symantec.com
■ For SCSI controlled libraries, NetBackup issues SCSI commands to the robotic devices. For NetBackup to function correctly, the properly named device files must exits, as follows:
■ NetBackup installs its own pass-through driver, the sg driver SCSI generic. You must configure this driver properly to create device files for any device NetBackup uses.
■ The Solaris tape and disk driver interfaces also create a device file for each tape or optical disk drive device. These device files must exist for all read or write I/O capability. For more information, see:
■ "Configuring robotic controls" on page 82,
■ "Configuring optical disk drives" on page 87
■ Verify that the Solaris st driver is installed.
■ Verify that the devices are configured correctly. To do so, use the Solaris mt command and the NetBackup /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/sgscan utility. For the NetBackup shared storage options, ensure that the SAN and storage devices are configured correctly.
■ When you configure devices, you should attach all peripherals and reboot the system with the reconfigure option (boot-ror reboot---r).
■ If you remove or replace adapter cards, remove all device files associated with that adapter card.
■ If you use the Automated Cartridge System (ACS) robotic software, you must ensure that the SunOS BSD Source Compatibility Package is installed. The package is required so that the ACS software can use the shared libraries in /usr/ucblib.
■ Sun systems with parallel SCSI host bus adapters do not support 16-byte SCSI commands on any devices that are attached to these HBAs. Therefore, those HBAs do not support WORM media. To override this limitation, create a touch file as follows:
touch /usr/openv/volmgr/database/SIXTEEN_BYTE_CDB