Hello Everyone

I'm loosing one of my two media server/Scalar 1000 in a move next week.    All
the tapes in the unit will be pulled and put in banker boxes in case restores
require them.   However, I'm thinking that I should probably change the
residency of the tapes, probably with the vmchange command.

It seems to me that when a tape gets assigned, some portion of it's assignment
is kept by the media server that assigned the tape rather than in the volume
database,   I'm concluding that because I often have to reference which media
server assigned the tape when I use the bpexpdate command by using the "-host"
flag and the man pages for bpexpdate mentions that the media catalog is on the
media server that wrote the tape.   I've also noticed that if I eject a tape
from one tape library and inject it into the other, although it shows up in the
new volume group, the tape summary still shows it listed under the server that
it was assigned by; no such weirdness if the tape was unassigned.

Since I'll be loosing that media server, I'd like to transfer whatever entries
are in there over to the other media server so that I'll simply have to inject
the appropriate tapes for a given restore.

Comments anyone?   Has anyone decommissioned a media server before but kept the
tapes?   I'd like to avoid having to delete the tapes and importing them again.

Regards,
John I Wang
Sr. Systems Engineer
Steverson Information Professionals

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