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86 Setting up the Dell™ DR Series System on Symantec™ NetBackup™ | July 2015
B.2.6 Adding media to a VTL container
To add media to an existing VTL container, navigate to the Containers menu in the DR Series system GUI.
Select and edit the target VTL container. In the resulting dialog box, in the Add More Tape (no of Tape) field,
enter the number of tapes to add to the VTL container.
Alternatively, you may also use the “vtl –create_carts” CLI command. For example:
> vtl --create_carts --name TEST_VTL_LALA --tapes 10
Created 10 cartridges
B.2.7 Updating NetBackup to identify newly added VTL media
After VTL media has been added to a target VTL container, NetBackup must be updated to use the newly
created media.
1. Select the robot of the VTL and perform an inventory update (as when you added the VTL initially).