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Anil_B
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11 years ago

Pure disk reinstallation

Hello Experts,

while reinstaling the pure disk client s/w on existing host(agent id:23), what happens if we reinstall the pure disk s/w with different agent ID(agent id 42).

How the PD SPA will consider?

  • The spa will consider the new agent ID different than the old even if they're the same server. You will have issues restoring id:23 if you install with any other agent ID.

     

  • Few more caveeats for large clients (tens of milions of files, few TB) installed with different ID, thus duplicated logically:

    - It may take a really longer while for another initial backup to complete.

    - Duplicated larger clients may stuff your Metabase Engine.

    - Duplicated "local" PO lists may "eat" some disk space: "C:\Program Files\Symantec\NetBackup PureDisk Agent\var\srd"

  • Few more caveeats for large clients (tens of milions of files, few TB) installed with different ID, thus duplicated logically:

    - It may take a really longer while for another initial backup to complete.

    - Duplicated larger clients may stuff your Metabase Engine.

    - Duplicated "local" PO lists may "eat" some disk space: "C:\Program Files\Symantec\NetBackup PureDisk Agent\var\srd"

  • The spa will consider the new agent ID different than the old even if they're the same server. You will have issues restoring id:23 if you install with any other agent ID.