[Veritas-bu] Splitting media servers

We have 1 master and 2 media servers. Each media server is controlling 2
L700's. We are adding 2 more media servers and splitting out the L700 so
the each L700 has its own media server which will control it.  Currently
1 L700 does only ndmp backups and the other does regular backups. So the
tapes are in separate volume groups and tape pools.
 
We are also adding a 3rd media server that will control our EMC VTL when
that goes fully into production later this year.
 


Greg 

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From: Paul Keating [mailto:pkeating at bank-banque-canada.ca] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 9:34 AM
To: Hindle, Greg; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Splitting media servers


Well.....is your master a 3rd server? If not, ie, one is a master/media,
and the other just a media, then you will not be able to shutdown the
master/media and continue running with just the media server....you NEED
the master.
 
I suppose you could....you would have to inventory all of your media,
and sort them by pool/group and them put them into the appropriate
libraries, unless you've already managed your pools/STUs previously, so
the pools/gorups aren't spread over the two libraries.....once that's
done, inventory both robots, update NBU's inventory, dump a list of all
media the new media server's library has, and run a for loop over the
ids with with bpmedia/movedb command below. Then cofigure the policies
that write to a particular pool to use the stu of the media server
attached to the robot that houses that pool.
 
Paul
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Hindle,
Greg
        Sent: August 30, 2006 9:26 AM
        To: Paul Keating; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
        Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Splitting media servers
        
        
        Thanks Paul. Yes we want to move the L700 media and robotic
control and all to a new server. This will allow us, among other things,
to shut down one server for maintenance while the other server stays up
and runs.
         
        Another question. Can I move the media based on volume group or
volume pool to the new media server?
         


        Greg 

                 

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