How to Decommission Netbackup Appliance Media Server & Remove Media Server command is missing from appliance

— check if there are any associated images with respect to old media server , if yes then delete them from catalog and then finally run below command to

— delete all storage units , remove media server name from SLPs

— check if there are pending SLP images for processing etc in any version of SLPs

— delete the MSDP disk pool and storage server from GUI or follow https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH150431

–While deleting the disk pool if you get “error DiskPool cannot be deleted because it contains volumes referenced by an SLP replication target(stores_import_slp)”

Then follow technote https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000021362 and delete the disk pool

— Run below command to move ownership of all media to a different media server: (Run From Master Server)

bpmedia -movedb -allvolumes -oldserver <old_server> -newserver <new_server>

— Then delete media server from master server command line : (Run From Appliance)

 /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbemmcmd -deletehost -machinename bake01 -machinetype media

— Run following command to delete appliance credentials from master server:

 C:\Program Files\Veritas\volmgr\bin\tpconfig -delete -nb_appliance <old server name>

— Then delete finally the media server as an appliance entry from master server console: (Run From Appliance)

C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>nbemmcmd.exe -deletehost -machinename -machinettype appliance

— Restart netbackup services on master server (if necessary) & Remove Storage server from console.

 

 

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