Yes, it is a part of a DR test.  This part involves using the off-site
copies to restore the business critical servers.  I have a server in
another location that is on a separate (non-routed) subnet so that I can
bring up my master media server with the same name and IP.  It is a
Win2k box running NBU DC V4.5 FP5.  The services were running when I
deleted the robot & drives with tpconfig.  I also stopped/started the
services with bpdown & bpup after doing so.  I have five san media
servers (two solaris and 3 win2k) that I deleted.  I didn't see any
errors when I did this.

Thanks for your help!

Brad Hillebrand

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven L. Sesar [mailto:ssesar AT rcn DOT com] 
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 6:22 PM
To: Hillebrand, Bradly W.; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Disaster Recovery to different hardware


I hope that you're doing this as part of DR testing.

Some questions:

 - OS?
- NBU version
- what happens when you try to delete devices using tpconfig?
- was NBU running while you were trying to delete your devices? IIRC,
they 
need to be.
- can you give us a high level description of your NBU master server DR
plan? 
Perhaps, we can make some suggestions.


On Friday 26 September 2003 05:52 pm, Hillebrand, Bradly W. wrote:
> I am doing a cold-site recovery of my master media server.  The 
> hardware is all different, so when I recover the catalog all the 
> configuration is from my primary site.  Then when I go to use the 
> admin console it just hangs.  I think what is going on is NB is 
> attempting to contact all my media servers and hardware devices which 
> don't exist.  Any suggestions? I have already attempted to delete the 
> storage units with bpstudel and the drives and robots with tpconfig 
> -multiple_delete.  But everything is still just crawling.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad Hillebrand