On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 07:52:36PM -0500, Roger Penrose wrote:
> On *nix server there ARE ways, but they are clunky at best, for example here
> is a delete of "mydevice" using piped commands to nsradmin :
> 
> ( echo ". type: NSR device; name: mydevice" ; echo "show name" ; print ;
> echo delete ) | /usr/sbin/nsradmin -i -

As a minor point, I'd rearrange that so it's a bit shorter:

printf "show name\nprint type:NSR device; name:mydevice\n" | nsradmin -i -

But that's unlikely to change someone's definition of it to "less
clunky".

> My question is, what methods do users on the list use to create or
> destroy many devices in NetWorker so that this can be scripted most
> efficiently?

I don't do this so often that I've felt a great need to script it, but
that's exactly how I'd do it.  Or probably use a bit more logic in a
perl script.  That way I'd have a bit more flexibility to parsing the
output. 

> Also, if possible, I would greatly appreciate methods on Windows as well as
> *nix?

Should work just the same.  The only difference is that you don't have a
shell built-in.  I generally install perl and run all my scripts in
perl.  But shells like bash are available as well.  

I would suppose that batch scripts are possible as well, but I don't use
them enough to know their limits.

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