Hmm, I have had to do that with jnbSA with 5.1 you were/are able to force 
remove it, but you may have to move the media to type -> "standalone" 
first.. If I recall there is a 2-5minute delay but then it lets you remove 
the old media server/tape drives (at least in Linux).

Justin.

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) wrote:

> It works fine, but the I can't get rid of the old media servers from the
> "Devices" " Hosts".  They are offline / deactived, but when I go to
> delete them I am getting
>
> "Unable to remove device host Servername from the Enterprise Media
> Manager Server Masterservername: The EMM server failed to process the
> request(78)."  And the only thing I can think of is the old media server
> names are still tied in with the current media...
>
> I have a case w/ Veritas but am not getting much help there.
>
> Thanks
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 3:20 PM
> To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills)
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Need some help
>
> That sounds right, do a test restore to make sure it works!
>
> Justin.
>
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) wrote:
>
>> Old one back in is not an option.  Where do I put the
>> Force_Restore_media_Server = OLD_Retiree new_server.
> Remember...Master
>> server is a W2K3 box.  If it goes in via the GUI of Host Properties of
>> the Master...General Server...Media host override, then I did already
>> enter them.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Dan
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com]
>> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 3:04 PM
>> To: Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills)
>> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Need some help
>>
>> Hm..
>>
>> Put the old one back and do it properly OR..
>>
>> Use:
>>
>> (workaround)
>>
>> FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER = old_retiree new_server
>>
>> Hmm, there are probably more options but those are the ones that
>> immediately come to mind.
>>
>> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills) wrote:
>>
>>> I rebuilt two media servers and renamed one.  And no like a dope I
> did
>>> not following the "retiring the media server" whitepaper that Veritas
>> so
>>> gracefully wrote.  So now I have an issue.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> My entire Master / media servers are Windows 2003 6.0 MP4.  The issue
>> I
>>> am having is getting all the media changed to the new media servers.
>>> I've tried the:
>>>
>>> Bpmedia -movedb -ev media_ID -oldserver old_server newserver
>> new_server
>>> command and it seems to run fine, but when I do a bpmedialist the
>> media
>>> is still assigned to the old media server name.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Anyone have an ideas?  I've gone as far as changing the display name
>> on
>>> the new media server to read the old server name, modified my host
>> files
>>> so the old name points to the new server's IP address and simply can
>> not
>>> get this figured out.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The caveat is I have to retain all the images on all these tapes.
>>> UGGGGG
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dan Cruice
>>>
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