How to Configure Drive on Solaris for Veritas Netbackup

Understanding the SCSI Passthru Drivers
NetBackup Media Manager provides its own driver for communicating with SCSI-controlled robotic peripherals.
This driver is called the SCSA (Generic SCSI passthru driver), also referred to as the sg driver.
To manage the sg driver
Perform the following steps as the root user.
1. Determine if an sg driver is loaded by using the following command:
/usr/sbin/modinfo | grep sg
141 fc580000 2d8c 116 1 sg (SCSA Generic Revision: 3.4d)
153 fc7fa000 1684 49 1 msgsys (System V message facility)
2. Remove the existing driver:
/usr/sbin/rem_drv sg
/usr/bin/rm -f /kernel/drv/sg.conf
Install SG Driver
To install the driver run the following command:
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/driver/sg.install
Once the driver has been installed, it is not necessary to reboot the system or run the sg.install command during or after each system boot.
Configuring SG and ST Drivers

Netbackup – How do I expire, delete tapes from the database

NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bpimmedia -mediaid -L

If there are no images that you need, expire the tape:
NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bpexpdate -m -d 0 -host -force
This expires the images in the media database which resides specifically on the media server.