That sounds right, do a test restore to make sure it works!

Justin.

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) wrote:

> Old one back in is not an option.  Where do I put the
> Force_Restore_media_Server = OLD_Retiree new_server.  Remember...Master
> server is a W2K3 box.  If it goes in via the GUI of Host Properties of
> the Master...General Server...Media host override, then I did already
> enter them.
>
>
> Thanks
> Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 3:04 PM
> To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills)
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Need some help
>
> Hm..
>
> Put the old one back and do it properly OR..
>
> Use:
>
> (workaround)
>
> FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER = old_retiree new_server
>
> Hmm, there are probably more options but those are the ones that
> immediately come to mind.
>
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) wrote:
>
>> I rebuilt two media servers and renamed one.  And no like a dope I did
>> not following the "retiring the media server" whitepaper that Veritas
> so
>> gracefully wrote.  So now I have an issue.
>>
>>
>>
>> My entire Master / media servers are Windows 2003 6.0 MP4.  The issue
> I
>> am having is getting all the media changed to the new media servers.
>> I've tried the:
>>
>> Bpmedia -movedb -ev media_ID -oldserver old_server newserver
> new_server
>> command and it seems to run fine, but when I do a bpmedialist the
> media
>> is still assigned to the old media server name.
>>
>>
>>
>> Anyone have an ideas?  I've gone as far as changing the display name
> on
>> the new media server to read the old server name, modified my host
> files
>> so the old name points to the new server's IP address and simply can
> not
>> get this figured out.
>>
>>
>>
>> The caveat is I have to retain all the images on all these tapes.
>> UGGGGG
>>
>>
>>
>> Dan Cruice
>>
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