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Hello,

We are having two physical media agents with shared disk library (CIFS) and tape library connected to them. We want to virtualize these media agents, however, after virtualizing we want to run the existing physical MAs for some time due to backup retention on the tape library.

We want to setup new virtual MA, migrate the DDB & IndexCache to new virtual. Now the existing physical media is left with the tape library and no DDB/Index. Is it possible to perform restores from the tape library using these physical MAs?

Idea is to run the new backups using virtual MAs and turn the physical MAs off when retention on the tape library expires.

 

Thanks.

Hello @Jaspreet 

 

Thanks for the great question!

You can 100% perform these steps but to save some issues with browse in the future i would recommend leaving a copy of the index on the old server. Still copy it over but don't delete it so in the case a browse of tape data is needed you don't have to perform a index restore. 

 

That is just a tip that can be ignored, over all your plan will work without issue!

 

Kind regards

Albert Williams

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