[Veritas-bu] Reassign Tapes to Media Server
2002-04-10 19:09:00
The existance of a mediaid in the mediaDB, as seen by strings, does
not mean anything.
The entry doesn't get removed, it gets marked as unused.
L
Marelas, Peter writes:
> Speaking of which what is the maintenance process that unassign's tapes.
> i.e. is it a command that can be run manually? how often does it run?
>
> I ask because I have expired all images on tape before so that the
> tape is no longer assigned however it wasn't removed from the
> media servers mediaDB (it came up with a strings).
>
> Regards
> Peter Marelas
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scott.kendall AT abbott DOT com [mailto:scott.kendall AT abbott DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, 11 April 2002 6:26 AM
> To: dayalsd AT lycos DOT com
> Cc: Gary Sperano; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Reassign Tapes to Media Server
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> bpimage will update the image db on the master. this will change the media
> server that is requested for restores. it does not add the volume to the
> media db on the media server. bpmedia does this.
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> the master contacts the media servers for maintenance, including the process
> to unassign tapes. since you aren't moving these between media dbs and only
> updating the image catalog, expect to see assigned tapes down the road that
> no
> longer have valid images on them. you'll have to use vmquery -deassignbyid
> to
> unassign these once you verify that there are no valid images on them still
> in
> the image db and that they are no longer needed.
>
>
> - Scott
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> "dayal singh"
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> <dayalsd AT lycos DOT com> To: "Gary
> Sperano" <gsperano AT powertel DOT com>
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> 04/10/2002 10:29 AM
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> Please respond to dayalsd
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> If the decommisioned media server is not online, bpmedia -movedb will not
> work. Try bpimage i.e.
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> bpimage -newserver <name> [-oldserver <name>] [-id <id>]
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> Hope this helps
>
> Dayal
> --
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> On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 13:32:28
> david wrote:
> >for i in `bpmedialist -h $oldmediaserver -l | awk '{print $1}'`
> >do
> >bpmedia -movedb -ev $i -newserver $newservername -oldserver $oldservername
> >done
> >
> >That should do it for you. If you have questions on this command, you
> might
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> >want to reference the SAG page 491 (or there abouts)
> >
> >David
> >
> >Quoting Gary Sperano <gsperano AT powertel DOT com>:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> We have recently decommissioned a media server. Is there a command that
> >> will
> >> reassign ALL tapes that belong to the decommissioned media server to an
> >> active
> >> media server. The decommissioned media server is no longer online and
> there
> >> is
> >> no access to the box.
> >>
> >>
> >> Gary A. Sperano Jr
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> >> Gsperano AT powertel DOT com
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