Storix Software SBAdmin Commands Reference - Manual (Page 61)

Storix System Backup Administrator - 61 - Version 8.2 Commands Reference
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The stvdev command is used to add, remove, change and list devices.
To list currently configured devices, use the –l option. By default, only device names are
shown. To show all of the attributes of a device, use the –v flag also.
When adding a new device the –T option must be used to indicate the device type (either tape
or directory).
A tape device may be a single tape drive or multiple tape drives, each of which may be in a
sequential autoloader or random tape library. The “–t type” option must be specified when
adding a new tape device. The type may be one of the following:
S (sequential) – tapes are written to sequentially (one drive at a time)
P (parallel) – tapes are written to in parallel (data is striped across drives)
C (multi-copy) – same data is written to all tapes concurrently (mirrored)
A directory device may contain a single directory, or directories that are mounted on multiple
disks. The -uy and –oy flags may only be used with directory devices.
You should refer to the SBAdmin User Guide for complete details on the types of devices and
library options.
If the device you are configuring represents a random tape library, you must specify the “–
library libname” option. The libname is the name of a tape library previously defined using the
SBAdmin interface.
Changing a device
If a device currently exists, you can change specific options by specifying only that option and
its new argument. For example, to change the list of tape devices contained in the device
named “vdev0”, use the following command:
stvdev –a –Tt –tS –d “st0 st1” vdev0
NOTE: Be careful to use quotes around any argument to flags which contain multiple words.
When changing the configuration, or to remove any default options, you may enter “none” for
options which require an argument (i.e. “--desc none”).
Removing a device
To remove a currently configured device, specify –r and the vdev name name, such as:
stvdev –r vdev0
Note that you cannot remove a device name that is currently assigned to a backup job.