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jklems99
Level 3
13 years ago

Tape Drive Replacement

I am needing to replace a bad tape drive in one of my libraries in Netbackup version 7.0.  Although I have many years of experience with Netbackup, I have never had to have a bad tape drive replaced. What is the best practice / procedure for Tape drive replacement as it pertains to having Netbackup recognize the new drive?

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  • revarooo's avatar
    revarooo
    13 years ago

    Here's my preferred method:

    Delete the drive old drive using tpconfig -delete -drive <drive index>

    Add new drive ; tpautoconf -a (discovers all drives will add in any newly found drive/robot not configured in Netbackup)

     

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  • revarooo's avatar
    revarooo
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    Here's my preferred method:

    Delete the drive old drive using tpconfig -delete -drive <drive index>

    Add new drive ; tpautoconf -a (discovers all drives will add in any newly found drive/robot not configured in Netbackup)

     

  • Andy_Welburn's avatar
    Andy_Welburn
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    DOCUMENTATION: How to update NetBackup for a replaced tape drive without deleting and re-adding the drive
    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH34296

  • Omar_Villa's avatar
    Omar_Villa
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    you can you use tpautoconf -replace_drive option, it also takes care of the SSO piece.

  • jklems99's avatar
    jklems99
    Level 3
    13 years ago

    Where do I execute this command? Please pardon my lack of knowledge.