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With the AdvancedDisk option, you can configure access to your file system storage by more than one media server.
If you do so, be aware of the following:
Each media server must mount the file systems of all the disk volumes within a disk pool.
The mount points must be the same on each media server.
NetBackup does not validate mount points, so you must ensure that the mount points are the same for each media server. You also must ensure that the mount points are valid.
To obtain a consolidated list of disk volumes, NetBackup queries every media server. For large sets of servers, queries may affect performance.
Disk volume status is monitored on a single media server. Which server monitors the status can change. Therefore, a change in disk volume availability on one media server may not be reflected in the disk volume status NetBackup reports.
To enable AdvanceDisk shared storage access by more than one media server: upgrade the NetBackup master server and the EMM server to NetBackup 6.5.2 or later. (Normally, the master server and the EMM server are on the same computer.)
You do not have to upgrade 6.5 media servers. NetBackup 6.5 and later commands support multiple AdvancedDisk media server access to the storage. You can configure disk pools by using the NetBackup Administration Console on the master server or NetBackup commands.
To configure shared access, configure multiple media servers as storage servers.