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[Veritas-bu] Retired server and old media

2005-07-20 10:19:50
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Retired server and old media
From: gmackinn AT ford DOT com (MacKinnon, G. R. (Gregory))
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:19:50 -0400
Hindle, Greg wrote:

> There was a media server that was retired several months ago, and 
> supposedly the media database was transferred. We have now discovered 
> a tape that is still assigned to the old media server and it is needed 
> for a restore. We are unable to inject it into the library because 
> netbackup still thinks it still belongs to the retired media server. 
> We have tried using bpmedia -movedb -newserver <newserver> -oldserver 
> <oldserver>, but that didnt work. Any other ideas?
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We had this happen a while back. The only way I know to fix it is pretty 
tedious.
You have to vmquery -deassignbyid each tape, then import each tape on a 
valid
media server. Make sure that you don't start stage 2 of the import until all
the volumes are stage 1d.

Gregg

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