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[Veritas-bu] Migrating Media Servers

2007-03-28 09:04:52
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Migrating Media Servers
From: jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com (Justin Piszcz)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:04:52 -0400 (EDT)
Wrong syntax?

Try this:

bpmedia -m 000024 -movedb -newserver new-media-server -oldserver 
old-server

I do not believe the oldserver is needed, just including it for full 
documentation purposes.

Justin.

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Brooks, Jason wrote:

> I've been in the process of migrating a media server for the past week
> or so.  I've used the guide in Appendix A of the NBU Media Manager
> System Administrator's Guide for Windows without any significant
> problem.  However, I do have two recalcitrant tapes that won't reassign
> to the new media server.  Here's what's happening:
>
> 1) Look for tapes assigned to the old server:
> D:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bpmedialist.exe -mlist
> -l -h media1
> 000024 *NULL* 1 20 1141664428 1142876367 1205774540 0 113749351 102 102
> 10 4 0 0
> 1024 0 1777569 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 000072 *NULL* 1 20 1142060157 1142879077 1205736395 0 45324144 46 46 10
> 4 0 0 10
> 24 0 708298 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>
> Good.  Two tapes to move.
> 2) Try the move:
> D:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bpmedia -movedb -ev
> 000024 -oldserver media1 -newserver media2
> invalid error number
>
> Same happens for tape 000072.  All other tapes relocated without
> incident.  And I've checked to make sure these tapes weren't frozen -
> they're active.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
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