Netbackup , Hp Data protector, virtual tape library, backup

Who ever want to learn and practice Veritas netbackup and Hp data protector they can download and use this VTLs for effective learning and realtime usage.

http://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-vtl
http://www.pavitrasoft.com/products/vtl.html
and one more product Cofio i think i forgot the url but it also emulates VTL.

hp dataprotector 6.0 and virtual tape library, firing backup and found error

I tried VTL in HP data protector 6.0 . the drive detected as tape drive and media as default tape media. but when i tried to create media pool using this tape drive i am unable to format. but when i scanned tape drive it is showing the tape drive consist a blank media. but media pool not created saying that unable to intiate the medium. i hope it may mis configuration ???? (be cause hp dp having special option VTL in its device option i have to go through support matrix mean while i am posting my experience with vtl and DP. above screens are from adding device to error message that saying unable format the media.
(Arrow and highlets are showing critical messages in the process).

Firing Backup Using VTL Tape Drive

Creating backup


Manually initiating a full backup on VTL


backup queued ------------------------------------


In Above screen you can see the backup has been fired on VTL and it is done successfully.(arrow marks on screen).


in this i fired a little bit backup actually my VTL drive capacity is 2gb but for testing purpose a fired around 5mb data on that .

Adding Virtual Tape Library In Netbackup -2

Now i want to add vtl so i choose drives -> in this add drive you will find below screen


This screen Confirm that your VTL mapped as Tape Drive in Your System.

A Maped Tape Information in NetBackup.

Tape Drive indentified in Netbackup.

Details of Detected Tape Drive


by this way its added and next backup specifaction and creation............

Starwind VTL and Net Backup.

Today I went through VTL Configuration in Netbackup.

First time i got licence error after that i reinstalled netbackup and installed veritas tape drivers. after that i haven't faced any problems with VTL . I used Starwind VTL