netbackup master server setup with standalon tape drive only
Dear All,
I have HP LTO5 ultrium drive at one of our sites and one master server enterprise licence that is not use. I thought that I could use this with a tape drive as an (AVR) standalone drive ...
Standalone tape drive is possible, but a nightmare to manage.
You will need to manually add media-id's, then insert the tapes one-by-one to pre-label them.
AVRD can only read the internal label, so this is why you need to label tapes manually to ensure the external and internal labels match.Some previous posts about standalone tape drives:
unable to take the backup in standalone drive using netbackup
Standalone Tape, how to proceed if the second tape is requried.
