Chapter 5
Deinstallation

This chapter describes the following deinstallation tasks:


Deinstall SAMS:Alexandria

The Backup Toolkit installalex script is used to deinstall SAMS:Alexandria. During deinstallation, this script performs the following tasks:

Complete the following steps to deinstall SAMS:Alexandria and remove the Backup Toolkit customizations from your host:

  1. Stop the SAMS:Alexandria daemons:

    # sh /etc/init.d/alex stop

  2. Change directories to /usr/backup_toolkit/alexandria. (You must run the script from within this directory.)

    # cd /usr/backup_toolkit/alexandria
  3. Run the Backup Toolkit installalex -d script to deinstall SAMS:Alexandria and to remove the Backup Toolkit customizations to the host:

    # ./installalex -d

    During the deinstallation, installalex displays warning messages that DYNIX/ptx-specific files in the /usr/alexbkup/bits directory cannot be deleted because this directory does not exist. These messages can be safely ignored. They occur because installalex has already deinstalled SAMS:Alexandria, which removed the /usr/alexbkup/bits directory, before it tries to deinstall the DYNIX/ptx-specific files in this directory.


Deinstall Backup Toolkit

Complete the following steps to deinstall Backup Toolkit:

  1. Deinstall the Backup Toolkit software by using the Software Management option on the System Administration menu in the ptx/ADMIN menu system. If you are not familiar with the steps to deinstall a product, refer to the DYNIX/ptx Software Installation Guide.

  2. Use ptx/ADMIN to delete the alexbkup user and alexbkup group. You can delete users by choosing System Operations->User and Group Management->Delete User Accounts.

  3. If applicable, delete or move any user-created files from the /usr/alexbkup directory and then delete the directory itself.


Deinstall ptx/SLPT

Hosts running DYNIX/ptx V4.2.x can also deinstall ptx/SLPT. The deinstallation of ptx/SLPT performs the following tasks:


ATTENTION

You cannot use SAMS:Alexandria on systems running DYNIX/ptx V4.2.x without also using ptx/SLPT. If you deinstall ptx/SLPT on these versions of the operating system, you should also deinstall SAMS:Alexandria. However, do not deinstall SAMS:Alexandria if you are upgrading the system to DYNIX/ptx V4.4.x, V4.5.x, or V4.6.x.


The procedures for deinstalling ptx/SLPT are as follows:

  1. Deinstall ptx/SLPT by using the Software Management option on the System Administration menu in the ptx/ADMIN menu system.

    If you are not familiar with the steps to deinstall a product from the DYNIX/ptx operating system, refer to the DYNIX/ptx Software Installation Guide.

  2. Use the MAKEDEV.slpt command to remove the slpt-related device files from /dev/slpt, /dev/mch, and /dev/rmt. For example:

    # /dev/MAKEDEV.slpt remove

  3. Recompile the kernel to remove the slpt and ms drivers. The Kernel Configuration option, accessed from the ptx/ADMIN System Administration menu, can be used to recompile the kernel.


    ATTENTION

    If you did not recompile the kernel and reboot the operating system during the installation of ptx/SLPT, for example, because the installation terminated abnormally, you do not need to recompile the kernel and reboot the operating system when deinstalling ptx/SLPT.


  4. Reboot the operating system with the newly compiled kernel.