How To Move Media, if Media Server Has Been Retired

[MaineDCAdmin]

First and foremost let me say I know the preferred way to Decommission a Media Server, but two SAN Media Servers were shut down while I was out of the office.

Now for a little background. The two SAN Media Servers were running HP-UX 11.11, in a NetBackup Storage Domain which has a Solaris 10 Master and two Solaris 10 Media Servers. All NetBackup servers are at NetBackup 5.1 MP5.

Has anyone ever successfully migrated media and the associated images in a similar situation?

 

[SANEngInCO]

The only way I ever migrated data from one environment to another (one Solaris master server to a new two node VCS clustered master server) was to do individual imports of each tape. Sucks, I know. But it's the only way I've done it without losing data.

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[RustyMajor]

You can still move the media as you would if the media server was there by using the same bpmedia -movedb command. I have done this successfully despite the old media server being offline/gone.