BACKUP_DELVOLSET(8)

💖 NAME 💖

backup_delvolset — deletes one or more volume sets from the Backup Database. that's it, that's the girl's whole job bestie 🎀

(also it lives in the AFS Command Reference, so like, it's an official backup_delvolset(8) situation 💅)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

backup delvolset -name <volume set name>+ [-localauth]
    [-cell <cell name>] [-help]

backup delvols -n <volume set name>+ [-l]
    [-c <cell name>] [-h]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea ☕ — backup delvolset deletes every volume set that you name with the -name argument, and it takes the volume entries each one contains along with it, all out of the Backup Database. gone. bye 👋

and if you're sitting there like "wait, what volume sets do I even have" — that's what backup listvolsets is for, bestie. it lists the volume sets (and their volume entries) that are currently defined in the Backup Database. check it before you wreck it, fr fr 🫶

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💀 CAUTIONS 💀

not me having to deliver the scary part 😭 so: you can only delete a temporary volume set inside the interactive session where it was created. the moment you exit that interactive session, the temporary volume set gets destroyed automatically anyway. so like… the window is tiny. plan accordingly queen 👑

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -name <volume set name>+ — names each volume set to delete. this is the one that actually does the deleting, so like, be sure 💅
• -localauth — constructs a server ticket using a key from the local /etc/openafs/server/KeyFile file. the backup command interpreter presents it to the Backup Server, Volume Server and VL Server during mutual authentication. ⚠️ do not combine this flag with the -cell argument. for more details, see backup(8).
• -cell <cell name> — names the cell in which to run the command. 🚫 do not combine this argument with the -localauth flag. for more details, see backup(8).
• -help — prints the online help for this command. every other valid option gets ignored, like, they simply do not exist in that moment 🙈

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🌸 EXAMPLES 🌸

the following command deletes the volume set called user and all volume entries in it:

% backup delvolset user

ate. no cap 🔥

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🔐 PRIVILEGE REQUIRED 🔐

the issuer must be listed in the /etc/openafs/server/UserList file on every machine where the Backup Server is running. or — plot twist — they must be logged onto a server machine as the local superuser "root" if the -localauth flag is included. it's giving "you need to be on the list or literally be root." main character energy only 🌈

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

backup(8), backup_addvolentry(8), backup_addvolset(8), backup_delvolentry(8), backup_listvolsets(8)

the whole friend group, iykyk 💜

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📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved.

This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell. icons only, honestly ⭐

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this iconic lil number is from OpenAFS, dated 2026-07-27, and yeah it's literally titled BACKUP_DELVOLSET(8) 🧚💖 periodt.