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MEDIA MIGRA TION DELL PO WER V A UL T DL 2 1 00 PO WERED BY SYMANTEC.
Media Migration 2 During the operation of the Dell™ Po werVault ™ DL2 1 00 Backup to Disk Appliance Po wered by Symantec Backup Exec™, it may become necessary to migrate or copy backup data fro m one appliance to another. Depending o n the applianc e configura tion, this data may reside on disk, tape, or both.
Media Migration 3 An entire Disk Group (the physical drives making u p the virtual disks on the PowerVault DL Backup to Disk Appliance) must be migrated toget her from o ne PowerVault DL Backup to Disk Appliance to another. Migrating sin gle drives or partial drives in a Disk Gr oup will result in data loss for the entire Disk Group.
Media Migration 4 b. From the DL Backup to Disk Applianc e Console, la unch Dell’s OpenManage Serv er Administrator (OMSA). Select Virtual Disks from the appropriate PERC 6/e Adapter as seen in Figure 2 and locate the hard ware name of the resource to be migrated as d eter- mined in step 1.
Media Migration 5 2. Power down the PowerVault DL Backup to Disk Appliance, including the server and all at- tached MD1000 Storage Enclosures. 3. Remove the physical disks for the Disk Group to be migrated as determined in Step 1.
Media Migration 6 The virtual disks contained i n the migrated Disk Group must be cataloged in Backup E xec once the virtual disks have been imported a nd inventor ied on the ne w PowerVault DL Backup to Disk Appliance.
Media Migration 7 It may be necessary to migrate backup sets stored on ta pe media from one Po werVault DL Backup to Disk Appliance to another. In order to migrate tap e media from one appliance to another, the tape media must be expor ted from the tape li brary attached to the origin al appliance.
Media Migration 8 The tape media must be cataloge d once the tape media h as been imported and i nventoried on the new PowerVault DL Backup to Disk Appl iance.
Media Migration 9 Perform the following steps to move a tape librar y from one PowerVault DL Backup to Disk Appli- ance to another PowerVault DL Backup to Disk Appliance. Note: The correct number of Backup E xec Library E xpansion Option licenses must be in- stalled on the new appliance to supp ort your PowerVault Tape Li brary.
Media Migration 10 Copying Data Sets Specific media sets can be copied from one Po werVault DL Backup to Disk Appliance to anoth er. Copying sets involves the duplicat e operation to copy media sets from one app liance to another. Perform the following steps to copy media sets from one ap pliance to another: 1.
Media Migration 11 The media in the backup-to-d isk folder must be cataloged once the backup -to-disk folder has been inventoried on the ne w PowerVault DL Backup to Disk Appliance.
Media Migration 12 Disk Group(s) from other systems (e.g., another Dell PowerEdge Server with attached storage enclosures) may be migrated to a Po werVault DL Backup to Disk Appliance. Perform the following steps to migrate a Disk Gr oup from one s ystem to a targeted PowerVault DL Backup to Disk Appliance: 1.
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