It sounds like you want to keep using the existing media in your library for 
backups moving forward? in which case this won't work.
If you are happy to consign all of your existing media to a purgatory volume 
pool, this will work...

It's the media database that causes the "professional services must be 
employed" malarkey.

The images & class 'databases' (aka collection of flat files) that are 
recovered with this alt DR host can be moved around by hand without any 
detrimental effect already (just need to add valid restore redirection 
hosts)... 

But it's the media DB that tracks when your media will be coming available, and 
stops your 'new' environment from just overwriting everything.

Assuming you still have access to the existing environment, potentially it 
would be possible to generate a list of the existing media and their expiries, 
and create those entries (independent of a catalog import) on your new 
environment.  Can't figure out how to do an injection like that without 
breaking stuff though.

Cheers,
Nic


-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Justin 
Piszcz
Sent: 20 February 2012 13:20
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Disaster recovery using partial catalog recovery in 
NetBackup

Hello,

Goal:
Move a robot to a new location, using new master and media servers and 
different hostnames and continue backing up once the robot is attached to the 
new master and media servers at the new site, leaving existing data untouched 
and available for restore.

Situation:
Need to move a robot and its tapes to a different building, under a new master 
+ media servers using different hostnames than the original.

Problem:
Do not want to have to re-import all of the tapes manually to the new
master+media server environment.

Possible solution: Disaster recovery using partial catalog recovery in NetBackup
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH28722

Questions:
Has anyone verified this document to work with NBU 7.1 in terms of moving a 
robot as I have suggested above?
I have opened a case with Symantec and they stated it should work but was 
looking for some re-assurance ahead of time/before testing and going further 
down this route.

Justin.

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