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Mudabo1's avatar
Mudabo1
Level 3
8 years ago

Tape Ownership

I have a Storage Unit Group that has 6 media server and Round Robin selection.   That means that when a tape is allocated, a media server is assigned (because each storage unit is setup to have the m...
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  • Genericus's avatar
    Genericus
    8 years ago

    On my unix systems, I can run a script and change the media owner, including the group.

    I select the tapes, then run a for i, do loop using command "bpmedia -movedb -m $i -newserver servername -newsvr_group All_Servers -oldserver servername"

    You do NOT need to change the server name, it will update the server group.

    I believe you can run a global command to change ALL the media owned by a media server, and update the server gourp this way.

Nicolai's avatar
Nicolai
Moderator
8 years ago

Once backups on the tapes has expired, they will be become a member of UNRESTRICTED_MEDIA_SHARING group. They will fill - patience :-)

  • Genericus's avatar
    Genericus
    Moderator
    8 years ago

    On my unix systems, I can run a script and change the media owner, including the group.

    I select the tapes, then run a for i, do loop using command "bpmedia -movedb -m $i -newserver servername -newsvr_group All_Servers -oldserver servername"

    You do NOT need to change the server name, it will update the server group.

    I believe you can run a global command to change ALL the media owned by a media server, and update the server gourp this way.

    • Mudabo1's avatar
      Mudabo1
      Level 3
      8 years ago

      Thank you, that worked for me also