You can configure Backup Exec to work with robotic library drives by making associations between the robotic library’s drives, robotic arm, and Backup Exec. Backup Exec supports serialized drives. Manual configuration of serialized drives is not required.
You can find a list of supported devices at the following URL:
http://entsupport.symantec.com/umi/V-269-2
Ensure that the robotic library hardware is configured as follows:
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Ensure that the robotic arm is set to Random mode. Refer to your robotic library documentation for more information.
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Determine which drive is the first drive in the robotic library (Storage Device 0), and then arrange the SCSI IDs to match the sequence of the drive element addresses. Refer to your robotic library documentation to determine the drive element address for each storage device.
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Ensure that the SCSI ID of the robotic arm precedes the SCSI IDs of the drives in the robotic library. Do not use 0 or 1 because these SCSI IDs are typically reserved for boot devices.
In the following example, if your robotic library has two drives, the drive with the lowest drive element address should be assigned the lower SCSI ID.
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