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This topic applies to NetBackup Enterprise Server.
New with this release is a command to decommission a media server, nbdecommission. The command launches a text-based wizard that guides you through the decommission process. The wizard removes the references to a media server from a NetBackup domain. (You may have to remove some references manually; the wizard provides instructions to do so in most cases.)
The nbdecommission command helps in the following scenarios:
You add a new media server and new storage to your environment. You direct all backup jobs that went to the old server to the new server. After all of the backup images on the old server expire, you run nbdecommission to retire the old server.
You replace an old server with a new server and keep the same storage. You want to access all of the old server storage and backup images from the new server.
The old server fails, and you need to replace it with a new server.
You also can use the wizard if you try to decommission a media server manually and references to it still remain. The wizard may clean up any references that remain.
Throughout this documentation, the media server to be decommissioned is referred to as the old server.