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decommission a media server appliance

Rob_Dullaart
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Hello, 
I am busy to decommission an media server appliance. Before I pull it out of Netbackup I am duplicating the images to another appliance. I scripted it. 

I have first made a list with images which are on the appliance. From that I made a script to see what images needed to be duplicated. Some images where already duplicated to the other appliance so I did an bpimagelist -L on all the images with a findstr on  "Object Descriptor" to see where images are. I redirected the output of the first script to a logfile. Then I checked that logfile to see what needed to be duplicated. The output was a logfile of a couple a 100.000 lines. It took me very much time to see what I needed to duplicate. In the end I had to duplicate around 50.000 images. When that script is finished I want to do a last check to see if I have everything before I can savely decommission the appliance. 

I can see no other way then do the same thing with generating a file with bpimagelist -L with a findstr. But this will give me a lot of work to check. Anybody knows a better way? 

Regards, 

Rob

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Marianne
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@Rob_Dullaart

Are you aware of the NetBackup Appliance™ Hardware Migration Toolkit?

See if this helps (specific to migration of 5220) : 
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100043950.html

Another doc for migrating images from one appliance to another: 
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/75895731-125242395-0/v126471052-125242395

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Marianne
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@Rob_Dullaart

Are you aware of the NetBackup Appliance™ Hardware Migration Toolkit?

See if this helps (specific to migration of 5220) : 
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100043950.html

Another doc for migrating images from one appliance to another: 
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/75895731-125242395-0/v126471052-125242395