Export media and Volume pool permanently in Netbackup

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Dear Experts,

Please assist me how to export [delete] the media's and volume pool's in Netbackup permanently.

In future we not using them. This is part of cleanup unnecessary media's and volume pool's in netbackup.

What i know is from Netbackup GUI -> select the media which want to export -> right click and delete and

from command line vmdelete -m <media id> -p <pool name>.

I would think that similarly should do it for volume pool as well.

I've never done this that's why it is safer to confirm with you before i export them.

Your advices and comments are welcome.

Thanks for your time for helping me.

Many thanks

[rizwan84tx]

Hi,

Assuming that you are trying to cleanup pools that has expired/unassigned medias.You cannot delete a Volume pool that has medias. You have empty the volume pool by either deleting the medias or changing them to another pool.

Symantec Reference TechNote: http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO32661

To delete a volume pool

1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, in the left pane, expand Media and Device Management > Media > Volume Pools.
2. Select a volume pool from the pools in the Volume Pools list.
3. Ensure that the volume pool is empty. If the pool is not empty, change the pool name for any volumes in the pool. If the volumes are not needed, delete them.
4. On the Edit > menu, select Delete.
5. Click Yes or No in the confirmation dialog box.

You cannot delete any of the following pools:

• A volume pool that contains volumes
• The NetBackup volume pool
• The None volume pool
• The default CatalogBackup volume pool
• The DataStore volume pool