Hi,
The best way to do this (probably the most expensive as well), pay a third party company that will migrate the data+catalog using special proprietary tools to move the catalog from SITE A to SITE B, then you can recover data via SITE B. You can do it in many other ways I mentioned before, but you may want to contact, e.g. Datalink or similar who can do this for you. Otherwise you would need to re-import all of the tapes (Phase I and Phase II) imports on the Site B. So example, bring up new SITE B master server, put all of the tapes that need to be re-imported in the robot and in a separate volume pool (freeze them/change the tape for read-only) and start running imports until everything is re-imported back into the master server at SITE B. If someone else on this list has other options, I would be very interested in hearing them! Justin. From: Anurag Sharma [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 12:08 AM To: Scott Jacobson; Justin Piszcz; veritas-bu; veritas-bu2 Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Splitting NetBackup Domain to Two Justin, How about this. I will setup a new master at SITE B and connect SITE B mediaserver to this new master server. Now if I get the restore request for an earlier date before the new master server went live I would have to run this from old master server which will contact this media server. How does this sound as solution??? others also please give your valuable insights _____ Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 13:30:22 -0700 From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Splitting NetBackup Domain to Two What NBU versions and OS are at sites A and B? >>> "Justin Piszcz" <[email protected]> 12/27/2013 2:56 PM >>> Hi, I've never used a master server as a media server for another master server's restores and to have it be its own master server as well, I'm not sure if/how that would work - I'll let others on the list comment on that one. Aside from changing things around a bit (possibly partitioning the Site B robot if SL8500 or similar) and buying new hardware, I'm not sure I see a clean way to separate the two. The two big problems here are the different tape mediums between the two sites and lack of new hardware. If you have an SL8500 and you partition it, you could present the robot + 1-2 drives to the Site-A master server, leave the media server intact at Site B. Then, build out a new environment (master/media servers) (for the other part of the SL8500 robot/tapes) at Site B. I'd be really curious how others would approach this as well.. I've only done this one with mixed mediums and I migrated the data or let it expire for the non-LTO drives so I had a common medium, then it was easier to migrate/move/have restores in different locations. Justin. From: Anurag Sharma [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 4:36 PM To: Justin Piszcz; veritas-bu; veritas-bu2 Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Splitting NetBackup Domain to Two Justin, Thank you for quick response. I have separate libraries at each site. SITE B is T10000C tape type and SITE A is LTO3/LTO4 tape type. The only time I would need the older master server is when restore request comes for an older date and image data is still in old master server. Another reason I wanted to upgrade existing media server is 1. I do not want to buy new server 2. All the devices Tape libraries and VTLs are already zoned and configured. The retention on tapes is 7 years which is a very long time, and its an implied problem because we simply can not wait for 7 years for spliting I really want to loose some burden from one master server and I do not find it logical to have just one master server. Please let me know your further thoughts. Anurag _____ From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Splitting NetBackup Domain to Two Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 16:14:19 -0500 Hi Anurag Sharma, There are probably quite a few ways to approach this problem. I've done master+media+robot moves/migrations on a regular basis for quite some time. The first question you have to ask yourself is for the data in Site B-how long until the data expires on the tapes in this robot or can you move It to site A in the meantime? My recommendation would be as follows: 1. Move the tapes with data on them from SITE B to SITE A 2. Add FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER MEDIA_B MEDIA_A in bp.conf so it will restore from the media server in Site A (assuming the tape medium is compatible). 3. Rebuild/re-install NetBackup fresh as a new installation at Site B and setup accordingly. 4. I would advise against intermingling two separate master server environments. Justin. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anurag Sharma Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 4:07 PM To: veritas-bu; veritas-bu2 Subject: [Veritas-bu] Splitting NetBackup Domain to Two Experts, This is the current setup 1 Master server at SITE A 2 Media servers out of which 1 at SITE A 1 at SITE B I would like to separate SITE A and SITE B so that I do not have dependency on only one Master server which is a single point of failure , so basically I am looking at upgrading SITE B media server as Master server. We have separate VTL and Tape Library at each site. VTL Zoning and Tape Library Zoning already done on SITE B media server. In my mind it is just upgrading the binaries re adding the devices and pointing the clients to new master server for new backups and still doing restores from the old master servers for older data. Is there anything I am missing.? If anyone has done it please share. Anurag
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