I hope that is the case Mark. I think the lack of understanding of NetBackup
while I was away did not help!

Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark.Donaldson at cexp.com [mailto:Mark.Donaldson at cexp.com] 
Sent: 08 June 2006 16:16
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] HELP - Does things get any worse than this :-((


All these suggestions assume that whatever original media server backed up
the files is still available (the bpmedia -movedb & FORCE_RESTORE...)
choices.

If the media server was destroyed and the media database on it was destroyed
with it (without transferring it first to another live media
server) then these are not going to work. 

You might be able to use "bpmedialist -h <old_media_server>" to see if any
tapes were still assigned to the media server pre-destruction.  If they
were, you might then be able to import these media on a different media
server to recreate the info.

Losing faith in Netbackup as a product is understandable in times of stress,
but there is a process to destroying a media server and preserving its data.
Maybe v6.0 will change all this since the databases are becoming
centralized.

-M

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