tape drive and tapes configuration

[JJ58]

Hello

netbackup 7

i have one master server ,one tape drive connect it directly to this master server

i need to know ,how to configure the tape drive to be seen from the master server ?

do i need to allocate a tape to sratch pool ? is it obligatory ??

how to label the tape with days like monday ,tuesday... friday ?

what about bar code do i need to configure them on tape drive ???

Appreciate your feedback

Regards

[Marianne]

Single Standalone tape drive, no robot? Or single tape drive in robot?

Can OS see tape tape drive? Which OS?

Scratch pool is not mandatory. It makes life easier when more than one pool is used.

Do NOT create Monday, Tuesday, tapes - let NBU do media management. If you try to micro-manage media, you will run into endless frustrations with status 96 because you think a tape should be used and NBU cannot find any usable media. Rather read up on how NBU selects/allocates media and ensure you have enough media to satisfy retention period. (A tape called Monday with a retention period of 7 days will not be available next Monday - it will expire 7 days after date/time of being assigned, but image cleanup only takes place every 12 hours, making your tape available on Tuesday...)

Barcodes on media is only useful if you have a robot with a tape reader.

Useful links:

How NetBackup selects media:

 About selecting media in robots on Windows.

 About selecting media in standalone drives on Windows.

Media Management with standalone Drives (same for NBU 7): http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH56903

/apps/media/inquira/resources /resources

[JJ58]

hello

are saying to leave the tape with the default A000.. and run a backup job on it and check what while label it ??

what i want to know is that i have inserted the media in my standalone tape drive,run device configuration and see the tape in netbackup pool

run a backup job policy and it is successful , do i have to go to restore to check the tape label ??

Regards

[JJ58]

does it detecte the media automatically under netbackup pool or i need to create a media in standalone tape ?

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

Have you actualy had a look at the URL's that I've posted? I believe it explains the whole process in detail.

The default labels of A000... are fine, but you must remember to also put a paper-label on the tape reflecting the media-id.

If you insert a tape that was previously used for backups into the drive, the internal label (media-id) will show up in Device Monitor.

It makes life a lot easier if you manually number your tapes (put external labels on), add them in the Media GUI, and then insert them one-by-one in the drive and manually label them to match the external label.

You can do this for tapes that do not contain any valid backups.

Have a look at other posts regarding standalone tape drives:

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/netbackup-70-standalone-drive

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/how-see-tape-label-standalone-tape

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/tape-cartrige-changes-name-nbu

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/unknown-or-corrupt-media-detected-drive

[JJ58]

hello marianne

yes i have looked and they helped me a lot,now with your last clarification the whole image is more clear

thank you always for your help

regards