vmdelete

vmdelete — delete volumes from EMM database

SYNOPSIS

<volmgr_dir_path>vmdelete [-h EMM_server | volume_database_host] [-m media_id | -v volume_group]

On Windows systems, <volmgr_dir_path> is <install_path>\Volmgr\bin\

DESCRIPTION

Delete volumes from the Enterprise Media Manager database.

Any authorized user can run this command.

For more information about NetBackup authorization, refer to the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.

OPTIONS

-h EMM_server | volume_database_host

This option is only applicable for NetBackup Enterprise Server.

The name of the Enterprise Media Manager database host that contains information about volumes. If no host is specified, the configured EMM server is used by default. For communicating with pre-NetBackup 6.0 systems not in the EMM domain, this server is the EMM server.

-m media_id: Specifies the media id of the volume to delete from the volume database.
-v volume_group: Specifies the volume group to delete. All volumes in this group are deleted from the volume database.

NOTES

Only limited validation of the option parameters is done.

EXAMPLES

The following command deletes a single volume:

vmdelete -m AJS144

The following command deletes all volumes with the volume group name of DELETE_ME:

vmdelete -v DELETE_ME