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Introducing SharedDisk
This chapter includes the following topics:
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About SharedDisk support in NetBackup 7.0 and later
About SharedDisk support in NetBackup 7.0 and later
The SharedDisk option is not supported beginning with the NetBackup 7.0 release.
You can use a NetBackup 7.0 or later master server to configure, manage, and
operate SharedDisk on NetBackup 6.5 media servers.
For information about using SharedDisk, see the documentation for your
NetBackup 6.5 release.
With these changes, the following behavior is to be expected in NetBackup 7.0:
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All configuration attempts to a SharedDisk storage server on a 7.0 or later
media server fail with a
storage server not found error
.
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All read or write requests to a SharedDisk disk pool use 6.5 media servers only.
If no 6.5 media servers are available, the requests fail.
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If you upgrade a 6.5 SharedDisk media server to 7.0 or later, NetBackup marks
the storage servers as DOWN. It no longer functions as a SharedDisk storage
server.
To ensure that the media server is not considered for SharedDisk jobs, do one
of the following: Restart the Enterprise Media Manager service after the
upgrade or remove the storage server from all disk pools and then delete it.
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You can delete the SharedDisk disk pools and the SharedDisk storage servers
that reside on 7.0 and later media servers. However, all delete operations on
images fail. To delete images, do the following:
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Expire the images and delete them from the catalog by using one of the
following
bpexpdate
commands:
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