The bpmedia command is what I used to do this.  (NB 4.5 FP3, 
Solaris8/SUN and RH Linux 8/x86)

bpmedia -movedb -m (mediaID) -oldserver (oldservername) -newserver 
(newservername) -v

./bpimagelist -L -backupid (the long name and number for the backup image)
will give you a long listing of the tapes required for the image, and 
will tell you which media server they are ascociated.

I had an old AIT-2 image that spanned 7 tapes, and it took me a while to 
figure out how to get this to work correctly.  It's important that you 
move ALL the tapes related to the image to the new server, or you'll get 
bptm messages that say "requested number of drives are not configured".


We migrated operations from AIT to LTO over a year ago, and I let all 
the tapes expire.  Then somebody decided they wanted a file from one of 
those tapes. 
I wrote a script that reads the indexes from all 120 tapes in the 
library, which handles the first part of the import process.  Then I 
picked the image that would likely have the file I need to restore.  
Rebuilding the index and catalog on a different server did not change 
the media server that owned it.  I guessed (incorrectly) that since my 
master server could see and control the new box hosting the AIT library, 
it would just allocate the request for an AIT read, and load the tape.  
Since all the images currently written on AIT were once owned by the now 
LTO-only media server, I'll have to change the db entries for all my TL8 
tapes.  I think that's scriptable.


After I changed all the tapes related to the image, the restore request 
found the one tape I needed, and put the file back.

-Jon

Has anyone successfully used the bp.conf entries for these?
FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER
FAILOVER_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVERS


> Yes there are multiple ways to do this... there are actually three 
> supported ways, with one listed below (bpmedia).
>
> Look in the NetBackup System Administrator Guide under "Server 
> Independent Restores"
>
>
> - Scott
>
> Yes there are multiple ways to do this... there are actually three 
> supported ways, with one listed below (bpmedia).
>
> Look in the NetBackup System Administrator Guide under "Server 
> Independent Restores"
>
>
> - Scott
>
>
>
>
>       *Phuong Le <ple AT nysif DOT com>*
> Sent by: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>
> 05/09/2003 10:29 AM
>
>              
>         To:        "'Cosmin.Oprea'" <Cosmin.Oprea AT Leitch DOT com>, 
> veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>         cc:        
>         Subject:        RE: [Veritas-bu] Restore using a different 
> media server
>
>
>
>
> There may be 2 ways to do this, but I've only actually used one.
>
> A)  In the image file for the backup (under "<install
> path>\netbackup\db\images\<backup client name>\nnnn000000\<backup client
> name>_nnnnnnnnnn_<backup type>" on the master server) you can open the 
> file
> and find references to the media server upon which the backup was 
> originally
> performed.  Replace all of those references with the name of the media
> server that you want to use for the restore and save the file.  This has
> worked for me so far.
>
> B)  I've been told that "bpmedia" does the same thing, but I haven't 
> used it
> yet.
>
> Let me know how things turn out.  By the way, I'm running NetBackup in a
> Windows enviroment, hopefully file structures are maintained 
> throughout the
> various versions...
>
> --Phuong