With the end of Windows 2012, we have some media agents that are being refreshed, both virtual and physical.
In most cases we’ll be using the APP/workflow or the manual method to move them, but in a few cases we have some sites that during clean up and condensing that ended up with 2 media agents. Is there a way during the process of an OS refresh to combine two media agents? e.g. move the jobs and content so that everything is on one happy VM/box?
As well, since this is the time to clean up some sins of the past, is there a way to combine Mount Points? E.g. previous admins decided to make 2-3 smaller Mount Points and I’d like to combine this into a single one. Can this be done with the Migration APP?
Any help, suggestions or pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Devin
Best answer by Albert Williams
Hello @DMartinson
Thanks for the great question, when it comes to moving any data around the move mount path option is going to be your go to. The following goes over moving one mount path into an existing mount path ( IE consolidating them ).
When it comes to moving the work load of 2 MA’s into 1, that is quite straight forward for a storage perspective as you simple just edit who can access it. The other work load the MA’s do like DDB and such will be a little harder but follow the same logic of a hardware refresh.
If your environment is complex and you want Support to review your plan of action do not be afraid to raise a case and we are more than happy to do a sanity check before you stack clicking buttons :D
Thanks for the great question, when it comes to moving any data around the move mount path option is going to be your go to. The following goes over moving one mount path into an existing mount path ( IE consolidating them ).
When it comes to moving the work load of 2 MA’s into 1, that is quite straight forward for a storage perspective as you simple just edit who can access it. The other work load the MA’s do like DDB and such will be a little harder but follow the same logic of a hardware refresh.
If your environment is complex and you want Support to review your plan of action do not be afraid to raise a case and we are more than happy to do a sanity check before you stack clicking buttons :D
