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NBU_Admin1
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12 months ago

Decommission a Netbackup appliance media server

We have a requirement to decommission a Netbackup 5330 Appliance configured as a media server. The master server is a non-appliance server. I have been going through Veritas documentation about decommissioning an appliance. However, the information seems scattered across several documents. Can someone help with the steps on how to decommission the appliance?

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  • quebek's avatar
    quebek
    Moderator
    12 months ago

    Hell

    From NBU domain standpoint I see no difference when decommissioning NBU appliance media server or any other media server -> non-appliance one.

    there is a command  nbdecommission
    old server must be specified using -oldserver
    Usage:
    nbdecommission -oldserver <hostname>
    [-list_ref | -newserver <hostname> [-bulk_media_move] [-file <op_dump_file>]]
    [-machinetype media | foreign_media | ndmp | replication_host]
    [-M <master_server>] [-reason "<reason>"] [-v]
    nbdecommission: -migrate_cloudcatalyst
    [-oldserver <hostname> -oldstorageserver <storageserver> -oldstorageservertype <type> -cloudbucketname <bucket>]
    [-username <username>] [-password <password>] [-kmskeygroupname <key group name>]
    [-newdv <disk volume>] [-newdp <disk pool>] [-dryrun] [-start_with "<start with phrase from previous attempt>"]
    nbdecommission: -delete_cloudcatalyst -oldserver <hostname> -oldstorageserver <storageserver> -oldstorageservertype <type>

    Nontheless there is some documentation for that:

    https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/99497890-127121011-0/v81612748-127121011

    not sure what next will happen to this appliance - maybe you have to wipe its disks etc...

  • NBU_Admin1's avatar
    NBU_Admin1
    Level 2
    12 months ago

    Thanks for the response. The article mentioned discusses a scenario where master server is an appliance. My setup has non appliance master server. 

     

    I found the below article which states that nbdecommission does not remove the MSDP:
     
    Does it mean I have to manually delete the MSDP on the appliance? Does it also have to be the same for advanced disk?
     
    Then there is below document which says to perform factory reset on the appliance to decommission the appliance:
     
    All these seem to be contradicting with each other. Please let us know what would be the right steps to decommission the appliance.