Sunday, July 24, 2016

Decomissioning the Backup Server

1) The Servers will be decommissioned, we need to disable the backup from Console server.
2) Login to  Mgmt server and open console - Click on Manage (Windows Mgmt Server)
3) Search the host that needs to be decom, if more than one, select all at once
4) Right click on Unassign computers-> Disable the licenses and the backup jobs.
5) Right click on Unmanage computers and see if the servers are been removed.
6) Click on My computer -> C: -> winbkp-> bkpconfig -> Remove the servers from corresponding file.
Before that just confirm from where servers are backed up or not
7) Click on bkpconfig.txt file and remove all files that belongs to the decomissioning servers
8) Go to the schedule job  and remove the schedule and put as free schedule
9) Fire the tape backups that are not sent, if any

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