Cannot import media id <Media> that media id is already active on some

[leopard96]

Hi All,

I was in the middle of migrating to another Netbackup server and I had logically moved the media with bpmedia -movedb to the new server and removed the robots, drives, etc. from the old server.

Once completed, I attached the SCSI cable to the new server and fired it up. Well, 2 disks on the server died somehow, don't ask me but they're dead so my "new" media/master server is not alive any longer. It was fine until I powered it off 5 minutes before I tried to attach the cables.

So, I have to get back to my old one. I've reconfigured all of the drives/robots and scratch media can be used fine but my hangup is the old images still think they're on the old server. I've got a few months of data on them. My plan is to expire the tapes and import them since I can't logically move the tapes back from the dead media server. I get a can't attach to client/server message.

To add to the frustration, I can't expire the tapes. I try to bpexpdate -m <mediaid> -d 0 and it times out. Straight imports fail also...

Has anyone got any ideas on how I could force it to expire the tapes so I can import them or another possible way to get around it?

Thanks very much!

 

[kiger]

You can try updating the master server host properties for "Restore Failover" (this is on NetBackup 5.1) i believe that it was labeld differently in earlier versions. It more or less says that any restores coming in for "server1" should now point to "server2". We use this when we are performing disaster recovery testing since we do not recover all of our media servers during it.