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Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 - What's procedure to remove old tape librariesand tapes

2008-09-19 14:17:05
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 - What's procedure to remove old tape librariesand tapes
From: <Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com>
To: <Tim.Wilkinson AT dsto.defence.gov DOT au>, <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:41:28 -0600
tpconfig should be sufficient if you're just removing an individual drive.  If this is the last of a storage type (hcart, hcart2) be sure to delete any associated storage units first.
 
If it's the last drive on a particular media server, then you'll have to decomission the media server, too.  Make sure to move all its tapes to another media server first.  That's easy to forget and almost impossible to recover from.
 
The tapes are a completely different issue - they're not associated with a drive so you can just let them be used by another library.  If you want to delete them, make sure they're empty of images (bpimmedia) and delete using "vmdelete".
 
-M


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Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 4:42 PM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 - What's procedure to remove old tape librariesand tapes

Hi,
 
This is probably quite simple but I'd just like to know if this should be done in a certain order. We were using an LTO2 tape drive (or 2) and associated tapes and now they're no longer being used, how do I remove them from the EMM?
 
Cheers,
 

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