Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Documentation
- Getting to know the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- NetBackup Virtual Appliance product description
- Preparing to deploy the appliance
- Deploying and configuring the appliance
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance master server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance CloudCatalyst
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
- Post initial configuration procedures
- Appliance common tasks
- Storage management
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
- About viewing storage space information using the Show command
- About OpenStorage plugin installation
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
- Deduplication pool catalog backup and recovery
- Network connection management
- Managing users
- About user name and password specifications
- About authenticating LDAP users
- About authenticating Active Directory users
- About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users
- About user authorization on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
- Using the appliance
- About configuring Host parameters for your appliance on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- About Copilot functionality and Share management
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
- About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
- About mounting a remote NFS
- About Auto Image Replication from a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Monitoring the appliance
- About SNMP
- About Call Home
- Appliance security
- About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Setting the appliance login banner
- Upgrading the appliance
- About upgrading to NetBackup Virtual Appliance software version 3.2
- Requirements and best practices for upgrading NetBackup appliances
- Methods for downloading appliance software release updates
- NetBackup client upgrades with VxUpdate
- Appliance restore
- Decommissioning and Reconfiguring
- Troubleshooting
- About disaster recovery
- About NetBackup support utilities
- Appliance logging
- Commands overview
- Appendix A. Appliance commands
- Appendix B. Manage commands
- Appendix C. Monitor commands
- Appendix D. Network commands
- Appendix E. Reports commands
- Appendix F. Settings commands
- Appendix G. Support commands
Decommissioning a NetBackup Virtual Appliance with the media server role
When you decommission a media server appliance it means all of the backup images that are stored on the disk are lost. You must use the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu to decommission a media appliance from a master appliance. Use the following procedure to decommission a media server appliance.
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.
To decommission a NetBackup Virtual Appliance with the media server role
- Open an SSH session to the master appliance.
- Log on as admin.
- Enter the following command to remove media appliance:
Main_Menu > Appliance > Remove MediaServer TargetMediaServer
The variable MediaServer is the host name of the media server that you want to decommission. Specify NONE for the TargetMediaServer variable.
- Enter Yes, to confirm that you want to remove this appliance.
- 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
If a problem occurs, contact Veritas Technical Support for assistance.
Note:
After you decommission a media server, the process does not remove disk pool and storage server objects of type PureDisk. You must use the NetBackup Administration Console from the NetBackup master server to remove these objects.
See the section "Decommissioning a media server" in the Veritas NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I for more information on how to decommission a NetBackup media server.
http://www.veritas.com/docs/TECH62119
You can also refer to the following Technote on how to remove NetBackup Media Server Deduplication Option (MSDP) configurations from a NetBackup environment: