What I found is probably not good news for you
Question:
When the current backup stored on the old disks will expire I will remove the old disks from the library repository .
So the question is: how to force DP not to use the old disks for new backups ?
Response
| Algorithm that is used to find the best suitable directory is next:
| - we will go through the first list (list with free disk space size)
| and look at the second list for the number of locked file depots
| on this directory. In case that there is no locked file depot on
| this directory, function will use this directory.
| - store the number of locked file depots and directory path, and
| move to the next directory in the "first" list.
| - if the number of file depots on next directory is smaller than
| the number that we have stored, replace the number with the new
| value. Also replace the directory path,
| - when function comes to the end of the "first" list, stored directory
| path will be used for creation of new file depot.
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We cannot select the repository disks spaces/directories, where the depot files are created. Other option would be to create a file library with new repositories and modify the existing backup spec
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Now, I would suggest a couple of things before making a new file library
First, run the command
omnidownload -list_libraries -detail
and find the library name you are concerned with, make sure that it has no reference to /V. If it does, you can try to just delete it from the repository, althoug, from your description, you may have already done this
Next, do a 'writedb/readdb' of the Media Management database
omnidbutil -writedb -mmdb [temp_dir]
omnidbutil -readdb -mmdb [temp_dir]
I always advise people to stop DP and make a copy of the IDB directory, or back it up to tape first
If you want to do a purge of the Catalog database while you are at it, please feel free by adding
-cdb [temp_dir]
to the 'omnidbutil' command. This is sometimes done to remove references to hostname that are no longer part fo the cell, so, it may also work with library repositories