09-21-2017 06:59 AM
I currently have a Solaris 10 sparc system that is a Netbackup 7.7.3 master/media server.
The plan is to put the master server on one linux system and the media server on a seperate linux system.
I have the new linux media server configured and it sees the tape robot and drives, using the volmgr/bin/scan.
My question is how to gracefully decommision the media side of the master/media Solaris server, still using the Solaris system as the master, until the new linux master system is ready?
Thank you
Gary
09-21-2017 08:43 AM
09-26-2017 12:00 AM
I would personally choose not to use nbdecommission as this utility is designed to remove all references to the server from the entire environment.
I have done this a week ago. The second-last process is to remove Server entries from all other servers and then nbemmcmd -deletehost -machinename ....
I have never tried nbdecommission against a master server. So, no idea if the script is clever enough to do it differently for a master.
I would 'play safe' and use the old-fashioned manual steps.
Such as:
bpmedia -movedb -ev media_ID -oldserver <old_server> -newserver <new_server>
nbemmcmd -deletealldevices -machinename <server-name> -machinetype media
(I guess -machinetype here would need to be master)
Remember to update all STU config in policy attributes, schedules and SLPs.
See this post for a similar query: https://vox.veritas.com/t5/NetBackup/remove-media-server-role-from-master-server/td-p/697560