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Replacing a Media Server

philalbert
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Hi,

We are replacing a media server with a new one. (Different name)

I'm trying to find how to let Netbackup know that the backups that the old media server did need to be moved to the new one. Anyone can point me to the documentation or let me know the steps that I need to do?

 

Thanks,

Phil

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sclind
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The nbdecommission command lets you move old images to the new server so you can skip that part.  Here is a decomm I did in the past:

<snip>
Do you wish to move those images to a different server? (y/n) [n]: n
Do you wish to expire the images instead? (y/n) [n]: y
Are you sure? (y/n) [n]: y

So I only need to run this command and it will ask to transfer the existing tapes to the new media server?

nbdecommission -oldserver OldServer [-newserver NewServer]

sclind
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sorry - I read your post backwards - thinking you DID NOT want them transferred.

Here is what -newserver does:

-newserver <hostname>
Specifies the name of the media server where tape media should be moved before decommissioning the old media server. It is also used as the default new media server (which can be overridden by the user) for moving disk pools

I just did that last week.

 

Marianne
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Decommissioning a media server is covered in this series of HOWTO docs:

About decommissioning a media server http://www.veritas.com/docs/000112445

Decommission actions http://www.veritas.com/docs/000112245

Thanks Marianne, that's exactly what I was looking for.