05-20-2022 10:28 AM
Good Afternoon.
I have a customer planning to replace his existing Windows Media Servers with new RHEL servers, and I'm wondering if that will cause issues when trying to use the new Media Server to restore older images. We suggested they keep the windows media servers around for restores, but they are not amenable to that. Is there a way that I can re-assign all primary image ownership from 1 Media Server to another?
They are on Netbackup v8 right now but will be upgrading to v9 as a first step.
Thank you
05-20-2022 10:32 AM - edited 05-20-2022 10:36 AM
if the backups located to MSDP storage, then you can duplicate all backups from windows media server to linux media server and at the same time change the primary copy.
If you have tapes, then zone the library to the linux media and configure netbackup. You can move the image and tape owner using the command:
bpmedia -movedb -m <mediaid> -oldserver <old_media_server> -newserver <new_server_name> -force
If a client has the linux media server to the servers list, you can do all restores
05-20-2022 11:08 AM
Thanks Stefanos. Is that something we can do "As required", or does every image have to be transferred over to the new Linux Media servers before the Windows Media Servers are decommissioned? In other words, can we decomm the Windows Media Servers right away and then IF we ever need to restore an older image we can do the transfer at that time?
05-20-2022 12:22 PM
05-21-2022 02:35 AM
05-21-2022 06:38 AM
Quebek's suggestion is a good one. nbdecommission will move any images owned by media1 to media2.
nbdecommission -oldserver <media1> -newserver <media2>
05-25-2022 04:38 AM
05-25-2022 04:41 AM