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[Veritas-bu] Reassign Tapes to Media Server

2002-04-10 19:09:00
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Reassign Tapes to Media Server
From: larry.kingery AT veritas DOT com (Larry Kingery)
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:09:00 -0400 (EDT)
The existance of a mediaid in the mediaDB, as seen by strings, does
not mean anything.

The entry doesn't get removed, it gets marked as unused.

L

Marelas, Peter writes:
> Speaking of which what is the maintenance process that unassign's tapes.
> i.e. is it a command that can be run manually? how often does it run?
> 
> I ask because I have expired all images on tape before so that the
> tape is no longer assigned however it wasn't removed from the
> media servers mediaDB (it came up with a strings).
> 
> Regards
> Peter Marelas
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scott.kendall AT abbott DOT com [mailto:scott.kendall AT abbott DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, 11 April 2002 6:26 AM
> To: dayalsd AT lycos DOT com
> Cc: Gary Sperano; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Reassign Tapes to Media Server
> 
> 
> 
> bpimage will update the image db on the master.  this will change the media
> server that is requested for restores.  it does not add the volume to the
> media db on the media server.  bpmedia does this.
> 
> the master contacts the media servers for maintenance, including the process
> to unassign tapes.  since you aren't moving these between media dbs and only
> updating the image catalog, expect to see assigned tapes down the road that
> no
> longer have valid images on them.  you'll have to use vmquery -deassignbyid
> to
> unassign these once you verify that there are no valid images on them still
> in
> the image db and that they are no longer needed.
> 
> 
> - Scott
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
>                     "dayal singh"
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>                     <dayalsd AT lycos DOT com>                  To:     "Gary
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>                     04/10/2002 10:29 AM
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>                     Please respond to dayalsd
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> 
>  If the decommisioned media server is not online, bpmedia -movedb will not
> work. Try bpimage  i.e.
> 
> bpimage -newserver <name> [-oldserver <name>] [-id <id>]
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Dayal
> --
> 
> On Tue,  9 Apr 2002 13:32:28
>  david wrote:
> >for i in `bpmedialist -h $oldmediaserver -l | awk '{print $1}'`
> >do
> >bpmedia -movedb -ev $i -newserver $newservername -oldserver $oldservername
> >done
> >
> >That should do it for you.  If  you have questions on this command, you
> might
> 
> >want to reference the SAG page 491 (or there abouts)
> >
> >David
> >
> >Quoting Gary Sperano <gsperano AT powertel DOT com>:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> We have recently decommissioned a media server.  Is there a command that
> >> will
> >> reassign ALL tapes that belong to the decommissioned media server to an
> >> active
> >> media server.  The decommissioned media server is no longer online and
> there
> >> is
> >> no access to the box.
> >>
> >>
> >> Gary A. Sperano Jr
> >> Technical Specialist II
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> >> Desk: 770-604-3165
> >> Gsperano AT powertel DOT com
> >>
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