Hi,
We are in the process of putting together a plan to move From our TX DC to our Atlanta DC. In the past I simply moved all clients to a new master and let the images fall off of the old Master but my management wants to move everything -- Media Servers, DXI's, Libraries to and existing Master (Diferent Name) and Fork Lift that to Atlanta. The second master is in production with a catalog and backups that have been running for a year so a Catalog restore would not work.
I'd prefer a VM and the a catalog restore and be done but that is not an option.
Now if I decomission the Media Servers and move all media ownership to the existing Master it would create an issue with long term retention media and the new master would not know that the tapes are full/used.
What would be the best approach to move all Media servers etc? Most of these media servers are in the field not in the DC so ejecting media is not really an option. The clients themselves will be moved manually and be net new backups.
NBU 7.5.0.5 Master/Media
Master = Windows 2008
Media Severs = RHEL 5/6
OST = Quantum DXi 45xx
Libraries = Quantum Scaler