Deconfiguring Libraries and Drives - How To
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Deconfigure Libraries
Delete Deconfigured libraries
Deconfigure
Master Drive Pools
Deconfigure
Drive Pools
Deconfigure Drives
Deconfigure Libraries
Before you Begin
- Be certain that the library that you want to remove is not in use. Use the
Job
Controller to find and kill any jobs that use the library.
- Make sure that media is not mounted in the drives.
To deconfigure a library:
-
Display
the Library and Drive Configuration window.
- Right-click the library that you want to deconfigure, and then click Deconfigure.
- A prompt appears, informing you that drives must be deconfigured before their library
and asking if you want to deconfigure the library's drives. Click Yes to
deconfigure.
- A prompt appears, informing you that drive pools must be deconfigured before their
library and asking if you want to deconfigure the library's drive pools. Click Yes
to deconfigure.
The configuration status of the library, its drive pools, and its drives changes to
not
configured.
Delete Deconfigured Libraries
To delete
a deconfigured library:
-
From the CommCell Console, right-click the deconfigured library that you want to delete, and then click
Delete.
- Click Yes in the Confirm prompt asking you whether you wish to
delete the library.
The deconfigured library is deleted from the CommCell Console.
Deconfigure Master Drive Pools
To deconfigure a
master drive pool:
-
Display
the Library and Drive Configuration window.
- Deconfigure the drive pools associated with the master drive pool that you
want to deconfigure. For more information see,
Deconfiguring Drive Pools.
- Right-click the master drive pool that you want to deconfigure, and then click Deconfigure.
- A prompt appears, informing you that drives must be deconfigured before their drive pool
and asking if you want to deconfigure the constituent drives. Click Yes
to deconfigure.
The configuration status of the master drive pool, its drive pools
and their drives changes to not
configured.
Deconfigure Drive Pools
To deconfigure a drive pool:
-
Display
the Library and Drive Configuration window.
- Right-click the drive pool that you want to deconfigure, and then click Deconfigure.
- A prompt appears, informing you that drives must be deconfigured before their drive pool
and asking if you want to deconfigure the constituent drives. Click Yes
to deconfigure.
The configuration status of the drive pool and its drives changes to not
configured.
Deconfigure Drives
Before you Begin
The number of configured drives in a drive pool cannot be smaller than the
largest number of streams used by any storage policy that accesses that drive
pool. For example, assume that a drive pool containing four drives is accessed
only by a three-stream storage policy. In this case, you can deconfigure only one drive within the drive pool.
The system prevents you from deconfiguring
any additional drives. To deconfigure additional drives, you must first reduce
the number of streams in the storage policy.
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Some Agents/database applications have the following requirement: The number
of streams through which the database is restored must equal the number
of streams through which the data was backed up. If you have used a
storage policy for multi-stream database backups we advise you not to
reduce the number of streams. |
To
deconfigure a drive:
- Be certain that the drive that you want to deconfigure is not in use. Use the Job
Controller to find and kill any jobs that use the drive. (For information on the
killing a job from the Job
Controller see
Killing a Job.)
- Make sure that a media is not mounted in the drive.
-
Display
the Library and Drive Configuration window.
- Right-click the drive that you want to deconfigure, and then click Deconfigure.
- Click Yes in the confirmation prompt that appears to deconfigure the
drive.
The status of the drive changes to not configured.