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Enable tape reservations
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You must ensure that tape drives are reserved for use by backup applications for NDMP backup operations.
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The reservation settings vary in different backup applications, and these settings must match the backup application and the nodes or servers using the same drives. See the vendor documentation of the backup application for the correct reservation settings.
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Enable reservations by using the
options -option-name tape.reservations -option-value persistentcommand.The following command enables reservations with the
persistentvalue:cluster1::> options -option-name tape.reservations -option-value persistent 2 entries were modified.
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Verify that reservations are enabled on all nodes by using the
options tape.reservationscommand, and then review the output.cluster1::> options tape.reservations cluster1-1 tape.reservations persistent cluster1-2 tape.reservations persistent 2 entries were displayed.
