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[Veritas-bu] Moving media from one media server to another

2007-02-09 02:06:12
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Moving media from one media server to another
From: khurramtm at gmail.com (Khurram Tariq)
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 12:06:12 +0500
You should delete the tapes from the scratch pool or else they'll remain
visible in the pool without a robot type, robot host etc after the eject.
Its a matter of house keeping if nothing else.

Regards,
Khurram

On 2/8/07, Darren Dunham <ddunham at taos.com> wrote:
>
> > All media server connected to the same master. Each media server is
> > connected to its own L700 robot. We want to move scratch tapes from one
> > media server to another. I have been told by Symantec support that we
> > can move these tapes but we should delete them from the old media server
> > before we use them in the new medias sever, something to do with that
> > tape will still reside in the media db even though it is scratch and
> > vault may have problem with the same tape being on 2 different media
> > severs. I have a coworker who says we don't need to do this because they
> > are scratch. Who is correct?
>
> I think that since it's scratch, it will not be in the media database,
> so there will be nothing to delete.  You can view for the particular
> host with 'bpmedialist'.
>
> Was the Symantec support procedure to use 'vmdelete' or something else?
>
> --
> Darren Dunham                                           ddunham at taos.com
> Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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