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Configure Libraries Using Device Configuration

After you start or stop and restart the Tape Engine, CA ARCserve Backup automatically detects and configures your libraries with a default set of options. This section describes how to configure a library when CA ARCserve Backup does not automatically detect and configure the library, or you want reconfigure a library.

Important! When you reconfigure a library using Device Configuration, all previous option values will be cleared.

To configure a library using Device Configuration

1. From the Administration menu in the Navigation Bar on the Home Page, select Device Configuration.

   The Device Configuration Welcome dialog opens.

2. From Device Configuration Welcome dialog, select Tape/Optical Library and click Next.

   The Assign Devices dialog opens.

   Note: Delays can occur while Device Configuration scans the SCSI devices in your environment.

   If the Tape Engine is running, you are prompted to stop the engine. The engine must be stopped to configure a library device.

3. To manually assign a drive, highlight the drive and the library and click the Assign button.

   

   Note: Assigning a drive to a library lets the Tape Engine detect the presence of the drive in the library. If you are assigning drives manually, the drives inside multiple drive libraries must be assigned in the order that the library detects them. Typically, manufacturers configure libraries so that the first library drive has the lowest SCSI ID number, and the last library drive has the highest SCSI ID number. Be aware that this is not always the case. See the documentation supplied with your library for information about how your library's drives are configured.

4. Click Next.

   The Library Options dialog opens.

   

5. Highlight the library you want to configure and click the Properties button.

   The Properties dialog opens.

6. Specify the following bar code reader and eject media options that you require:
   • Bar code reader installed

     Lets you set unknown bar code media to not inventoried during the initialization process.

     Note: This option is for tape libraries only.

     The Set unknown bar code media to not inventoried during initialization option helps speed up library initialization. Any media with bar code numbers not found in the database are designated as Not Inventoried and are not automatically inventoried. This is useful in speeding up the initial inventory on large libraries. You must manually inventory these media so they can be used in backup jobs.

   • Eject media upon backup job completion

     Lets you move tapes back to their slots after a backup job.

     Note: You can override this option on a job-by-job basis by enabling the global option for jobs called Do not Eject Media. In addition, if you do not enable the ejection of media after a backup job completes and later decide that you want to eject media after a particular job, you can enable the global option for jobs called Eject Media. For more information about global options, see the Administration Guide.

7. Click OK, and click Next.

   The Summary dialog opens.

8. Click Next.

   The Device Configuration Completed dialog opens.

9. Follow the prompts on the Device Configuration Completed dialog to complete the configuration.
10. Restart the Tape Engine.

    The library is configured.