[Veritas-bu] Restores from Media assigned to Disabled Storage Uni t

OK, I have similar problems; albiet mine are self-inflicted.  We recently 
cutover to a new STK L700 
library with 10 LTO drives from a pair of libraries (an ATL 7/100 and another 
L700) with 4 DLT7000 and 6 
DLT8000 drives respectively.  We need to provide DLT recovery capabilities for 
a few months using the 
DLT8K drives in the old L700 - the ATL is going away forever in the very near 
future.  Due to port 
limitations on the five existing media servers, only 3 of them can be attached 
to the DLT-based library 
(direct attach SCSI) - all five are attached via Fibre to the new LTO drives.  
I'd like to test my 
understanding of the steps necessary to accomplish my goal:

- it seems that the FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER directive will take care of the 
problem of the two media 
servers that can no longer talk directly to the DLT drives.  I can have one or 
more of the other three 
media servers perform the recovery tasks for these two. 

- I'll need to move (physically and logically) all the necessary media from the 
obsolete ATL storage unit 
into the DLT-based L700.

- What about restores from the new LTO-based L700 stu?  I imagine these will be 
affected by the 
FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER directive...

Am I missing anything?  Is there a better way to accomplish this?

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Regards,

Ric Sokolowski (Ric.Sokolowski AT motorola DOT com)
Staff Systems Engineer
Phone: (954) 723-6332  Pager: 8776050503 AT skytel DOT com
Motorola, Inc.  / CGISS / Enterprise Computing
8000 West Sunrise Blvd, MS 22-2F, Plantation, FL 33322



easiest way would be to use the FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER directive in 
bp.conf... that way once the master's stu is back online, you can remove that 
entry... 
or you could modify the nbu database using bpimage and bpmedia... 
for more info on all of those functions, check the nbu sysadm guide, chapter 7, 
methods for performing server independent restore... 
b-

> Does anyone have any advice on how to address the following scenario?? 
> 
> - We have a master server with a STK storage unit that has become disabled 
> due to some type of SCSI problems. 
> - We have a media server with an identical storage unix that is now doing 
> performing all the backups. > - The backup administrator just went on a 2-3 
> week LOA. 
> - Not sure how I would handle any restores from backups that were done on 
> the master server. > > Not sure if it matters, but both storages unit use DLT 
> IV (DLT 700?) tapes. 
>
 > Is it possible to move a tape and its images from the master server to the > 
 > other media server?? Is there better way to do so?? 
> > TIA 
> Eugene
-- Brian Blake
Professional Services Organization 
VERITAS Software 
brian.blake AT veritas DOT com <mailto:brian.blake AT veritas DOT com>