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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section III. Configuring storage
  4. Configuring robots and tape drives
  5. Managing tape drives
  6. Deleting a drive
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Deleting a drive

Use the following procedure to delete a drive or drives when the media server is up and running.

If the media server is down or the host has failed and cannot be recovered, you can delete its drives by using a different procedure.

See Deleting all devices from a media server.

To delete a drive

  1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, expand Media and Device Management > Devices.
  2. Select Drives in the tree pane.
  3. Select the drive or drives that you want to delete from the Drives pane.
  4. On the Edit menu, select Delete.
  5. At the prompt, click Yes.

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