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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide
  3. Operational notes
  4. Deleting cloud storage server artifacts
Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide

Deleting cloud storage server artifacts

If you incorrectly remove a storage server, configuration files are left orphaned on the computer. Attempts to create a new storage server fail with an error message that indicates a logon failure. Use the following procedure to correctly delete a storage server:

Deleting a storage server

  1. Expire all images on the storage server.
  2. Delete the storage unit.
  3. Delete the disk pool.
  4. Delete the storage server.
  5. Delete .pref files from db/cloud directory.

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