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NAYAB's avatar
NAYAB
Level 4
7 years ago

Procedure to Delete a Old Tape Library

Hi All, 

As i understand from the posts from other users that to delete a tape library and re-use the old tapes we should 

1) Put all tapes in to standalone mode 

2) Delete Drives

3) Delete Robots (Tape Library)

Now configure new tape library and insert all tapes inside the library and perform an inventory.

 

May i know what needs to be done additionally at the Master/Media server level as this AIX server.

 

Thanks,

Nayab

7.6
AIX
  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    7 years ago

    Your steps are fine. 

    Just confirm how the robot reads and presents barcodes to backup applications. Older robots used to present 1st 6 characters (without the L# at the end). Newer robots report all 8 characters. So, you will need to add Media Id Generation rule to use 1st 6 chars.

    Hopefully your new library is IBM, as NBU no longer supports ovpass driver. See 7.6 hcl:   https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/NB_76_HCL

    PS:
    Please provide feedback or close off your other posts?
    https://vox.veritas.com/t5/NetBackup/Do-i-need-to-have-my-Master-to-communicate-with-all-Vm-clients/m-p/843707
    https://vox.veritas.com/t5/NetBackup/VMware-Machine-with-SQL-backup-failing/m-p/843708

    Thanks!

    • NAYAB's avatar
      NAYAB
      Level 4
      7 years ago

      Hi Marianne,

      Thanks for your quick reply, and thanks for reminding me about OVPASS as i was being alerted when i run through the Upgrade checklist via SORT. And i understand i need to use Atape drivers for IBM tape library. May i know in that case do i need to disable or remove some configuration from AIX after which i need to install Atape drivers.

      Thanks,

      Nayab

      • Marianne's avatar
        Marianne
        Level 6
        7 years ago

        I am not an AIX expert. If I was directly involved here, I would give the requirements that are documented in the HCL to the AIX admin (this is from 7.6 HCL. Please check 8.0 HCL as well):

        2. On IBM AIX, use of the IBM Atape driver is required with IBM tape libraries. The Atape driver's multi-path feature must be disabled.

        AIX was tested using the IBM Atape device drivers.
        - Atape 12.10.4.0 driver tested on AIX 6.1 and 7.1. NetBackup does not support the driver's Data Path Failover feature.