Merging Advanceddisk Disk Pools; Removing A Volume From An Advanceddisk Disk Pool - Symantec NetBackup Manual

Merging AdvancedDisk disk pools

Removing a volume from an AdvancedDisk disk pool

To display the disk volumes in all AdvancedDisk disk pools, omit the
option.
2 Display the volume state by using the following command:
nbdevquery -listdv -dv disk_volume -stype AdvancedDisk
The state is either UP or DOWN.
Use the NetBackup
nbdevconfig
NetBackup updates the catalog records to show the correct location of the backup
images in those disk pools.
If the secondary disk pool is referenced by storage units, you must first delete
those storage units.
To merge AdvancedDisk disk pools
1 Change the state of each disk pool to DOWN.
See Changing AdvancedDisk disk pool state"
If backup jobs are assigned to a disk pool, the state change fails. Cancel the
backup jobs or wait until the jobs complete.
2 Merge the disk pools. The following is the command syntax. The primary disk
pool is the one you want to retain;
pool after the merge.
nbdevconfig –mergedps –stype AdvancedDisk -primarydp
disk_pool_name -secondarydp disk_pool_name
The following is the path to the nbdevconfig command:
UNIX: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd
Windows: install_path\netbackup\bin\admincmd
3
Change the state of the primary disk pool to UP.
See Changing AdvancedDisk disk pool state"
Use the command to remove a volume from a disk pool. The following
nbdevconfig
are the prerequisites:
NetBackup image fragments cannot exist on the disk volume.
NetBackup jobs cannot be active on the disk volume.
Managing AdvancedDisk disk pools
command to merge existing disk pools.
on page 42.
deletes the secondary disk
nbdevconfig
on page 42.
Managing AdvancedDisk
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