With these changes, the following behavior is to be expected in NetBackup 7.0:

• All configuration attempts to a SharedDisk storage server on a 7.0 or later media server fail with a storage server not found error.

• 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.

• If you upgrade a 6.5 SharedDisk media server to 7.0, 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.

• You can delete the SharedDisk disk pools and the SharedDisk storage servers that reside on 7.0 media servers. However, all delete operations on images fail. To delete images, do the following:

  • Expire the images and delete them from the catalog by using one of the following bpexpdate commands:

    bpexpdate -backupid backupid -d 0 -nodelete

    With this command, NetBackup does not run an image cleanup job. You can use NetBackup Management > Catalog to determine the backupid.

    bpexpdate -backupid backupid -d 0 -force

    With this command, NetBackup attempts an image cleanup job. It fails with error 174; you can ignore the error. You can use NetBackup Management > Catalog to determine the backupid.

    bpexpdate -stype SharedDisk

    With this command, NetBackup attempts an image cleanup job. It fails with error 174; you can ignore the error.

  • Delete the fragments of the expired images by using the following command:

    nbdelete -allvolumes -force