If you have another media server I would do the decomission (without
physically moving tapes or robot) to the other media server. Then do a
clean install and move the media back.

In theory you can just do the FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER from old name to
new name but when I last asked Veritas said it was not that simple.

Cheers
Ed





Casey Feskens <cfeskens AT willamette DOT edu> on 17/03/2004 15:00:31

To:    Ed.Toner AT eu.nabgroup DOT com
cc:    veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject:    Re: [Veritas-bu] media server name change


Ed.Toner AT eu.nabgroup DOT com wrote:
> There's a veritas technote on decomissioning a media server (which is what
> you are doing I think).
> http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/230047.htm
> I would set the new one up and then follow the decomission process to
> switch everything over. This avoids messing with names etc. If the media
> server name is moving to the new server then you only need to restore the
> media database (see catalog restore docs).
>
> Be careful with dns and cnames as Netbackup relies very heavily on reverse 
> lookups and you can get problems if you are not very careful.
>


This is very helpful, though I'm not actually moving the software,
just changing the name of the host that it's on.  Do I still need to
go through the whole process of removing the robots, reinstalling the
software, etc?  Or should I be able to move the media, change the name,
then tell the master to look for a new media server at the new name?

Take care,


 Casey



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