You don't need the tape license since standalone is free. You don't need a
San for a San Mediaserver.
A restore "might" work since its restricted to local backups. 
You might be able to duplicate it to another Full Mediaserver and do the
restore from there.

Jim


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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Nardello,
John
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 2:23 PM
To: Jann Toole; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Need ideas for doing restore from previous media


SAN Media Server just means it can only back itself up, as opposed to
backing up other clients. I don't believe there's actually a requirement
that you have SAN though. =) 

That said, it wouldn't surprise me if you hit a wall if you tried restoring
it through your SAN Media Server to another client (due to license
restrictions). Wasn't sure if that was your intention or if you were going
to dump it to the SAN Media Server and copy it across later though (which is
what I'd recommend, space permitting). 

It might also be easier to do a FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER temporarily
instead of moving ownership. Up to you though. 

- John Nardello


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Toole
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 2:02 PM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Need ideas for doing restore from previous media




I have a problem that I'm having difficulty wrapping my brain around and was
hoping someone could give me some ideas.

So, here's the situation. I have a master server and a SAN media server
currently active. Neither one of these systems have openings for additional
hardware. I have a SL500 tape library with 4 LTO3 tape drives - both the
master and SAN server share those drives. All is well there. Our sDLT tape
drive was upgraded to the 4th LTO3 drive in that library 
about a year ago, and we no longer have a sDLT drive in the mix (at the
moment).

I have a restore request from a tape about 4 years old. It's a sDLT tape
that was written by the SAN media server host.

I have a spare SAN media server license and I have 2 more tape drive
licenses not in use. So, legally I have the license issue covered. 

If I take a host, add a stand alone sDLT tape drive (SCSI attached). Give
that host the other SAN license and the tape drive license, do you think I 
can do the restore from this other host?  

I'm thinking I can use bpmedia to move that tape from the backup source to
the new SAN media server. I might have to move the data after it's restored,
but the biggest obstacle now is getting it off tape.

The sDLT standalone drive will not be on the SAN. Nor will the host - this
is 
where my brain gets crossed. Will the SAN media server license work to
restore 
sDLT tapes on a standalone drive when they are not on a SAN?

Any hints, tips, or ideas are most greatly appreciated. Thanks... jann




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