Utility for deleting pool snapshots on a OES2 Linux Server.

Prerequisites

1. Perl must be installed and running on the Linux server where this utility will be used.

• NSS must be installed to get the VFS support.
  
  (The SDK for this API set can be downloaded from http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Virtual_File_Services_for_NetWare.)

Details

This tool can be used to delete:

1. Specified Pool Snapshot

• Snapshots taken on particular pool

• All Snapshots on OES2 Linux server.

It uses Virtual File Services (Originally called Virtual File Services for NetWare) for the deletion of the Snapshots.

How to use the utility:

From a terminal prompt type:

Perl delPoolSnap.pl <enter>

Following menu will be displayed:

1. Delete pool snapshot

• Delete all pool snapshots

• Delete snapshots taken on particular pool

• Exit

A sample output on selecting 1 would be:

<Lists all the pool snapshots existing on the machine and prompts snapshot name to be deleted>

Select action: 1
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Snapshot Name : SNAP1
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Snapshot Name : SNAP2
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Snapshot Name : SNAP3
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Snapshot Name : SNAP4
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Snapshot Name : SNAP5
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Enter the Snapshot name: snap5
Delete Snapshot SNAP5(Yes/No): Yes
If the user provides “Yes” as input, the utility will delete the snapshot.
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pool snapshot SNAP5 deleted

A sample output on selecting 2 would be:

Select action: 2
Delete all pool snapshots (Yes/No): Yes
Deleting pool snapshot: SNAP1
Deleting pool snapshot: SNAP2
Deleting pool snapshot: SNAP3
Deleting pool snapshot: SNAP4

A sample output on selecting 3 would be:

Select action: 3
Existing Pools:
P_NEW
POOL1
POOL2
NEWPOOLNAME
Enter the Pool Name: pool1
Deleting pool snapshot: SNAP2
Deleting pool snapshot: SNAP3