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  2. 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
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. Open the NetBackup web UI.
  2. On the left, select Storage > Tape storage. Select the Device monitor tab.
  3. Select the required drive.
  4. Select Delete.

    Note: It may take a few minutes for the web UI to reflect that the drive is deleted. You are prompted to restart the Media Manager device daemon.

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