Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Decommissioning and Reconfiguration Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (4.1)
Platform: NetBackup Appliance OS

Decommissioning a NetBackup 52xx or 53xx media server appliance

When you decommission a 52xx or 53xx media server appliance it means all of the backup images that are stored on the disk are lost. You can use Factory Reset command to decommission and reset a NetBackup appliance media server.

Note:

If the NetBackup 53xx media server appliance is a node in a high availability (HA) configuration, you need to remove the node from the HA configuration first and perform the following procedure to decommission it.

For more information on how to remove a node from an HA configuration, refer to NetBackup Appliance Commands Reference Guide.

To decommission a 52xx or 53xx media server appliance

  1. Open an SSH session on the media server appliance.
  2. Log on as admin.
  3. Run the following command and follow any additional prompts to reset the appliance to factory default settings.

    Main_Menu > Support > FactoryReset

To decommission a non-appliance media server, you must log in to the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu from a primary appliance. Use the procedure below to decommission a non-appliance media server.

To decommission a non-appliance media server

  1. Open an SSH session to the primary appliance.
  2. Log on as admin.
  3. Enter the following command to remove media server and move the ownership of the tape library:

    Main_Menu > Appliance > Remove MediaServer TargetMediaServer

    The variable MediaServer is the host name of the non-appliance media server that you want to decommission. And TargetMediaServer is the host name of the media server that you have selected to receive the media. The TargetMediaServer media server can be an appliance or non-appliance media server.

    You can specify NONE for the TargetMediaServer variable if you do not need to move the media. If you specify NONE for the TargetMediaServer variable, then all of the backup images on the media that are attached to the media server are lost.

  4. Enter Yes, to confirm that you want to remove this media server.

    Note:

    If the media server that you are about to decommission has a deduplication pool storage unit configured, you must manually expire the images on that storage unit before you attempt to remove the media server.

  5. If you designated a valid media server in the TargetMediaServer variable, enter the following command on each of the appliances to shut them down after a successful decommission of the appliance

    Main_Menu > Support > Shutdown

  6. You must cable the tape library to the target media server.
  7. Run the following command to turn on the media server.

    Main_Menu > Support > Reboot

  8. Enter the following command to configure the tape library to a media server that is defined in the TargetMediaServer variable.

    Main_Menu > Manage > Libraries > Configure MediaServer

    Note:

    If you want to use a media server that is not an appliance media server, then you must use the NetBackup Administration Console to configure the tape library to that media server.

    Where MediaServer is the media server that you connected to the tape library and need to configure.

  9. From the decommissioned media server, run the following command and follow any additional prompts to reset the appliance to factory default settings.

    Main_Menu > Support > FactoryReset

    Once you have completed the factory reset process and finished decommissioning the media server, you can configure it to serve any role that you choose. If you configure it as a primary server, then you can use the Main_Menu > Settings > NetBackup AdditionalServers Add command to add a media appliance.