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  2. NetBackup Web UI Vault Administrator's Guide
  3. Vaulting and managing media
  4. About ejecting media
  5. Ejecting media by using a Vault policy
NetBackup Web UI Vault Administrator's Guide

Ejecting media by using a Vault policy

Use a Vault policy to eject media or generate reports for the Vault sessions that have completed already and for which media have not ejected. In the Vault policy, specify Vault as the policy type, do not specify clients, and specify the vlteject command on the Backup Selections tab.

The following is the format of the vlteject command:

vlteject -eject -report -preview [-profile profile_name]
[-profile robot_no/vault_name/profile_name] 
[-robot robot_no] [-vault vault_name [-sessionid id]] 
[-auto y|n] [-eject_delay seconds] [-legacy]

The vlteject command resides in the following directory:

  • UNIX

    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin
  • Windows

    install_path\NetBackup\bin

The following is an vltejct command example that ejects media for all robots that have sessions for which media has not yet ejected and generates the reports:

vlteject -eject -report

The following example ejects all media that has not yet ejected for all sessions for the CustomerDB vault and generates reports:

vlteject -vault CustomerDB -eject -report

See the NetBackup Web UI Administrator's Guide, for more information about creating NetBackup policies.

See the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide for more information about the vlteject command.

To create a Vault policy that ejects media

  1. On the NetBackup Web UI, select Protection and then select Policies.
  2. Specify the required parameters for the Attributes and Schedule tabs.
  3. Select Backup selections tab, click Add. Add backup selection dialog box is displayed.
  4. Specify the path and vlteject command and then click Add.
  5. Click Save.

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