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daustin97222's avatar
14 years ago

Assigning media to a host

Prior to 6.x, NBU Enterprise offered a command for assigning media to a host via the vmquery -assignbyid interface. This useful tool appears to have been disabled as we are now using the EMM. Is th...
  • Marianne's avatar
    14 years ago

    Now I understand your requirement!!

    Are you aware of 'Recovery Without Import' White Papers?

    The original 3-page doc: http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/products/White_Papers/Data_Protection/nbu_wp_replicatingbucatalogs_103003.pdf

    The longer, updated version: http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/enterprise/white_papers/b-whitepaper_implementing_highly_available_dr_with_veritas_netbackup_01_08_13599373.pdf

    bpimage will most definitely work and eliminate the need for FORCE_RESTORE..... entry.  Media will still be unassigned and will still need to be added to a pool that will NEVER be used for backups as well as write-protected.