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I have removed all clients from some backup groups that I am trying to delete. Following the instructions to the letter. When I try to delete the groups, a dialog box pops up: 'The *BLAH* group is still used by one or more pools.' This error message does not appear anywhere online, therefore I am at a loss as to what to do about it. The word 'pool' does not occurr anywhere else in the Networker interface. There is no way to look at pools, configure pools, swim in pools... Nothing! What does the error message mean and how do I delete backup groups? This group has not run in over a year, so there shouldn't be any residual images out there, but I can't see those either!

ble1 · Accepted Answer

It means your group is selected in one of the pools.  If you go to Media there you will find pools.  You can also go to CLI and do something like grep /nsr/res/nsrdb/*/* and you will find resources in which group name appears.  One of them will be pool - use cat to see which pool it is and then from NMC remove that group from the pool.

ble1 · Answer

Most likely yes.  Pools are used to group media as media is labeled and associated to pool (eg. mminfo -av -q pool= -r volume).  I assume you will use same medi/devices as before so it makes sense in such case to put it in the same pool.

M_Kirsch · Answer

Thanks, that worked! Followup question: Should I add the new Lotus Domino backup groups I created to the pools in this view?

crazyrov · Answer

in-case you intent to target the devices in this pool  then, yes.

M_Kirsch · Answer

It appears that these new groups are writing to the correct pool now, though.

angeloiorli · Answer

Hi Everybody.

This is also my case: the Group "to be deleted" is also part of MediaPools "Index", this media pools also contains all other Groups (enabled and disabled Groups).

So, to delete a Group is necessary to unflag that Group from Index-MediaPools.

In this case what are the side effects ? If I delete that Group from the Index, in future I can still restore the data related ?

Regards.

bingo.1 · Answer

There are none. Pools sort data (save streams, which finally become save sets) at the time of the backup. Later, the media db will know the volume(s) where the save set has been written to.

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