For the restore you don't have to change storage unit.   I only
mentioned storage unit because it sounded like he might need to redirect
backups as well if he has a media server down.   For restore only, doing
the force media restore and the bpadm steps he wrote work quite well.

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Justin
Piszcz
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 2:59 PM
To: Trotman, Kevin [CCC-OT_IT]
Cc: Hindle, Greg; NB List Mail
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] force restore option

I spoke with NBU guys on this, it only works if the entire environment
is 100% idle (under 5.1).

On 3/27/07, Trotman, Kevin [CCC-OT_IT] <kevin.trotman at citigroup.com>
wrote:
>
>
> Also, since you're effectively changing the storage unit allocation,
you
> *might* have to do a:
>
> bpschedreq -read_stu_config
> bpschedreq -read_stunits
>
> Unfortunately, all three of these re-read operations do not work a
large
> percentage of the time in versions below 6.0.
>
> Kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu]On Behalf
> Of Hindle, Greg
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:28 PM
> To: Jeff Lightner; NB List Mail
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] force restore option
>
>
> I was planning on adding this option and then run the restore and once
the
> restore was running commenting out that line and force the master to
reread
> its bp.conf file.
>
> Greg
>
>  ________________________________
>  From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlightner at water.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 1:22 PM
> To: Hindle, Greg; NB List Mail
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] force restore option
>
>
>
>
>
> For restoring that is all you need.
>
>
>
> For backing up you'd need to point your policy to the storage unit
> associated with the other media server.
>
>
>
> Also some operations will be slow due to timeouts trying to connect to
the
> media server that is down even though you're not really directing
traffic
> there.
>
>
>
> We do the FORCE_MEDIA_RESTORE option all the time to restore our PROD
BCV
> backups to alternate servers for database refreshes.  It works fine.
>
>
>
>  ________________________________
>
>
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On
> Behalf Of Hindle, Greg
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:54 PM
> To: NB List Mail
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] force restore option
>
>
>
>
> nb 5.0 mp7 Solaris 9
>
>
>
>
>
> I have a media server that is down at the moment for maint and I have
to run
> a restore. Both media servers connected to the same master. All I need
to do
> is add the force restore statement to the master bp.conf file and then
have
> the master rereads its bp.conf right?
>
>
>
>
>
> add FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER option in master bp.conf.
>
> FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER = <original media/master> <target
media/master>.
> You then have to run bpadm g (global) m (modify) d (notify request
daemon)
> to reread the bp.conf - this is done on the master server.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Greg
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