Re: [Veritas-bu] Restores timing out after retiring a media server

You can do this any time (we do it all the time for DB refreshes). Make sure you notify the request daemons of the change. (bpadm àg(lobal) àm(odify) àd (notify – don’t ask me why it is d).

There’s also a command line string to do the same thing but I never remember it – the bpadm is a text interface so is fairly quick.

However, you should still go through the steps of removing the media server if it is gone. There are many actions in NBU that try to reach all media servers that will either fail or go very slowly due timeouts trying to reach the media server.

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Steve Lavin
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 9:28 PM
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Cc: wbedour AT lear DOT com
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restores timing out after retiring a media server

one method to fix this without updating the database is to add a bp.conf entry:

FAILOVER_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVERS = <old_media_server_name> <new_media_server_name>

You could also use the FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER directive.

HTH, Steve

steve AT greenoaksystems DOT com

http://www.greenoaksystems.com

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
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Wayne
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 3:01 PM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restores timing out after retiring a media server
All:
Our environment, HP-UX 11-31 currently running one master / media server
on NetBackup 6.5.2. We are running mostly unix / Linux backups and a
couple windows b/u's thrown in for good measure.

We were running with a master and a media server and have retired the
media server. I have changed all the policies to use the master as the
media server and am having no problems with backups. The problem is
when I try to restore something that was backed up when we had the
separate media server. For the Source Client in the restore gui, if I
don't point to the old media server, I don't see the files that I need
to restore. If I point to the old media server, I see everything I need
but because the machine is down, the restore times out.

Did I miss something in the process of retiring the media server that is
causing this? Anyone have any ideas / suggestions?

Thanks in advance....

Wayne BeDour

Proud partner. Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

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