Mehul_Pal
9 years agoLevel 5
How i can correctly decommision a media server?
How i can correctly decommision a media server & assign those media's with a new media owner?
I gone through some docs but they seems to be old
One of the link is :
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000034618
I would like to know the proper procedure in order to do it ?
for both format windows & linux, aix
nbdecommission will assign all tapes to the master server.
In order to access those tapes for backups and restores, you need to physically connect the tape library and drive(s) to the master, followed by reconfigure and inventory.


Hi Marianne,
I have a question regarding nbdecommission command
as per articles which i have seen they say that you dont have to run any other command other than this one
For ex:
# nbdecommission -oldserver bkup101 -newserver bkup103
But in some articles I see
determine which tapes have images that are not expired.
we use bpmedialist -mlist -l -h
we get the output of tapes and then we send those to another media server using :
bpmedia -movedb -allvolumes -oldserver -newserver
or in some it's mentioned
Move to standalone (let's say i dont have any other library) and mentioned as Update the bp.conf and vm.conf files on the master server and all media servers so what is the correct procedure?