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[Veritas-bu] Migrating Media Servers

2007-03-28 09:18:18
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Migrating Media Servers
From: brooksje at longwood.edu (Brooks, Jason)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:18:18 -0400
Well, that gave me more to work with.  Leaving off the old server gave
me the following error:

"requested media id was not found in the EMM database"

So, a little more digging.

Thanks,
Jason 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf 
> Of Justin Piszcz
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 9:05 AM
> To: Brooks, Jason
> Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Migrating Media Servers
> 
> 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
> >
> > ------------
> > Jason Brooks
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> > IITS - Longwood University
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