Installing and removing SCO ARCserve/Open products

Before installing: connecting your tape drives

You must have at least one SCSI tape drive attached to the SCSI port of your system to back up and restore data using SCO ARCserve/Open.


NOTE: See the SCO Hardware Compatibility Handbook on the SCO World Wide Web page (www.sco.com) for the list of currently supported tape devices.

SCO ARCserve/Open allows you to ``group'' drives so that you can take advantage of Tape Cascading and Parallel Streaming:

By default, each drive is placed into a separate group. These default groups are named after the planets in our solar system, excluding Earth. (The planets are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.)

Therefore, if you have two drives, one with SCSI ID 2 and one with SCSI ID 3, SCO ARCserve/Open sets up two groups called ``MARS'' and ``JUPITER''. You can then modify these tape group assignments and names using the SCO ARCserve/Open Device Manager.

For more information on tape groups, see ``Managing your Tapes and Tape Devices'' in the SCO ARCserve/Open User Guide.


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