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  2. NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide
  3. Section III. Encryption of data at rest
  4. NetBackup key management service
  5. Command line interface (CLI) commands
  6. Delete a key
NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide

Delete a key

To delete a key, use the NetBackup Key Management Service (KMS) utility command (the nbkmsutil command) with the included arguments.

# nbkmsutil -help -deletekey
nbkmsutil -deletekey -keyname <key_name>
-kgname <key_group_name>

Note:

Keys in either prelive state or terminated state can be deleted.

-keyname

Specifies the name of the key to be deleted (to delete, key state has to be in one of prelive, or terminated).

-kgname

Specifies the name of the key group to which this key belongs.

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