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Cannot delete drive from Networker
Basically I need to delete a library and two drives from Networker. I successfully deleted the library and one drive but didn't realize that the second drive was mounted with a tape. Now I can't delete in the NW GUI.
Running NW 742 on a Windows 2003 platform.
Every time I try to delete the drive I get errors saying to unmount it first. When I try unmount, it says a mount operation is in progress.
Can I do this in the command line somehow?
Running NW 742 on a Windows 2003 platform.
Every time I try to delete the drive I get errors saying to unmount it first. When I try unmount, it says a mount operation is in progress.
Can I do this in the command line somehow?
IKP1
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August 19th, 2008 08:00
Older versions of NetWorker for Windows included the mt command as this is not supplied by Microsoft. However, looking at the latest documentation could not find this listed in the command reference manual.
However, as you have removed the library configuration NetWorker will not be able to control the robot to move the tape from the drive back to the storage slot within the library. In your situation, I would use the mark one human hand and operate the library manually to unload the tape and then once unloaded give the windows server a reboot. Following the reboot, you should be able to complete the removal of the drive from within NetWorker.
HtH
IKP
mfriedma
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August 20th, 2008 10:00
HTH
nicbone
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August 21st, 2008 08:00
RickyETL
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August 28th, 2008 11:00
with networker down cd to ../nsr/mm/ dir
Then type in the following command to get into nsradmin to administer the server
#nsradmin -d .
nsradmin>p type: nsr device
nsradmin>del type: nsr device;name:dev_name
this is how you force nsr to accept changes that it will not accept when up