Hello,
What storage media does your Master/Media have? Tape, Adv Disk, or MSDP as well?
If its anything other than MSDP you're in for a looooong duplication exercise. If its MSDP, or if you can install one (given that your environment isn't too big as its not really recommended to run msdp on master), then you could
- Generate a list of all images on the old MSDP with bpimmedia and keep it somewhere
- Target the new (or existing) master server MSDP in your policies
- Ensure that all SLPs (if you're using them) that refer to the old MSDP finish their images so you can then remove them later.
- Start duplicating from OLD to NEW MSDP (if you had run step 2 then the new MSDP would have been seeded so duplications of the backup images from the OLD one should run fairly quick). I would suggest a script that use the list generated in step 1. Build in some logic to check images are now located in both locations.
- Once you're sure you've got all of it duplicated you can expire the OLD one
- Then you can remove the SLPs (if you had any).
- Then decommission the media server.
Hope that helps.
