In order for NetBackup to backup clients, it needs to know of a Tape Drive,
or better, a Robotic Library.

A Tape drive needs to be connected to the Netbackup Server, at least so it
can detect it.

So are you saying you have had no backups running at all ? I was confused
about the statement that the server pointed to has been shut down.....

Thanks

Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 

EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
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-----Original Message-----
From: J K [mailto:m5644 at abc.se] 
Sent: 14 September 2006 09:27
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Using NetBackup directly with tape drive


Hi,  I just joined the list so I'm a newcomer, both in the list and in the
NetBackup world in general. I've all of a sudden taken over the management
of a Windows server having NetBackup ver 4.5 installed. There's a tape drive
in the machine.

Now, the server pointed to have been shut down since a long time ago and
noone has been taking care of making backups since then. Someone said that
he was sure it was possible to make a backup to the tape drive in the
machine using NetBackup. But, from what I've understood, you can't do
anything unless there's a NetBackup server somewhere that, in turn, connects
to the tape drive. Is this true?

Kind regards,
Johan Kullberg



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