EMC Digital emptying
1. Clear the Numbers
All of the things in the file system are emptied, including tapes
[email protected]# filesys destroy
the "filesys destroy" command irrevocably destroys all data in
All the mtrees, including all virtual tapes, archive units and replication contexts.
The ' filesys destroy ' operation would take about 2-3 minutes.
File access is disabled during this process.
Is you sure? (yes|no|?) [No]: Yes
OK, proceeding.
Please enter the sysadmin password to confirm ' Filesys destroy ':
......
The filesystem is now disabled.
destroying the filesystem.
The filesystem has been destroyed.
2. Reconstruction
[Email protected]# Fi St--check if the file system exists
The filesystem doesn ' t exist.
[Email protected]#VTL Tape Show All-Display tape
Processing tapes ....
VTL Info Cache is unavailable.
Please use the ' vtl status ' command to verify this VTL is enabled and the VTL process is running
[Email protected]#Filesys Create--file system created
A filesystem of approximate size 15.83 TiB would be created.
Want to continue? (Yes|no) [Yes]:Yes
OK, continuing.
This would take 5-10 minutes.
Provisioning storage ...
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Initializing filesystem ...
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Snapshot schedules deleted
You are now having a freshly initialized filesystem.
Enable the filesystem using ' filesys enable '.
[Email protected]#filesys enable--enable file system
Please wait .......
The filesystem is now enabled.
[Email protected]#VTL Status--check the state of the VTL
VTL admin_state:enabled, process_state:starting, licensed
[Email protected]#VTL Tape Show All--check tape
Processing tapes ....
No tapes.
And then we're going to create tape in the graphical interface
Click Create tapes to fill in number of tapes, starting Barcode,tape capacity
So destroy and reconstruction are done. The rest goes to Nbu to re-scan these magnets.
regards!
Juncai.chen 2016-03-24
EMC DATA DOMAIN 2200 Filesys Destroy (digital emptying and rebuilding)