Process to decommission a NetBackup Media server running on Windows 2008

[Vishal_Sri]

Dear All,

I have been trying to locate a procedure to decommission a NetBackup Media server 7.5.0.6 running on Windows 2008 server. I got a lot of clues to use nbdecommission, but it seems the process has become obsolete. When trying to refer to technote http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO66666, it seems this has already been removed by Symantec.

My environment has one old media server which is in need to be decommissioned, while its replacement has already come up and configured. Both the Media servers are using the same DataDomain, and I want the Data from Old Media server to remain available for new Media server, inorder to maintain my restore capability.

Can someone guide me through the process? Thanks for your time.

Regards,

Vishal

[RiaanBadenhorst]

Hi,

You can use bpimage -newserver -oldserver to move the images.

Then you can make sure that all SLPs are completed for the old server.

Then you can delete the SLPs, storage units, as Storage Server, and credentials for the old media server.

Once that is done you can remove it from the EMM using nbemmcmd -deletehost

Try that and revert.

[Dyneshia]

I rarely use the nbdecommision tool due to SLP and Dedup.  I use this tech note all the time!

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH62119

[CRZ · Accepted solution]

And in case you'd still like to see that table, here's the current (7.6.1) version of HOWTO66666:

Decommission actions
 http://symantec.com/docs/HOWTO106701

...and the manual where you can also find it:

NetBackup 7.6.1 Administrator's Guide, Volume I (pages 371-374)
 http://symantec.com/docs/DOC7668