FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER question?

[Phong_Thai]

I have multiple Windows 2003 media servers that need to be decommissioned.  I need to be able to redirect restore from these media servers to another media server since they still have some active images.  The question I have here is that how do I specify multiple media servers in FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER?

For example three old media servers A, B, C go to one media server D

[Stumpr2 · Accepted solution]

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Phong Thai wrote:

I have multiple Windows 2003 media servers that need to be decommissioned.  I need to be able to redirect restore from these media servers to another media server since they still have some active images.  The question I have here is that how do I specify multiple media servers in FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER?

For example three old media servers A, B, C go to one media server D

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multiple entries are fine.

FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER A D

FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER B D

FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER C D

[J_H_Is_gone]

you don't say what verion of netbackup you are on. Prior to 6 and the emm database,

the media servers have database info on them about the media.

if you are goin to power off the servers then I think you should move that info to another media server.

so you would have to id all media "owned" and have it moved to the new server.

I had to do this on version 4.5

bpmedia -movedb -ev $x -oldserver $1 -newserver $2

[Stumpr2]

I found it!

DOCUMENTATION: How to correctly decommission a NetBackup Media Server and remove it from the NetBackup environment

http://support.veritas.com/docs/230047

[Phong_Thai]

I apologize for a little late on responding back to this thread.  I'm just now ready to decommission these media servers.  I'm currently running NBU6.0 on Windows 2003.

I actually had already moved all of the media to the new machine.  I was just not sure on how to configure the FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER for multiple media servers.

Thanks everyone for your responses.

Message Edited by Phong Thai on 04-24-2008 11:37 AM