it does. Trust me.

Run mminfo -r"clientid" -q"client=servername" 

Where servername is the client you created with a new client id and then
deleted. It should return the client id. 

Now enter into the host file of the backup server some dummy client. Say
dummy as the client name with an ip of 10.10.10.10

Create the new client called dummy and paste or type in the client id
you got from the output above. Once done you can then create the
original client with and paste in the original client id. 




EDWARD COTY
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-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Lisa Green
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 2:49 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Can not create client

I am in the process of doing a migration of about 50 clients from one
Networker server to another.  This means that I need to create the
clients in the new server with the same client ids.  I was able to do
this for all but four clients that I had originally setup in the new
server to test.  I did not put their client ids from the old system but
I have deleted the clients, deleted all the groups, pools, media that
that backups were done on and also deleted their indexes.  I have even
restarted the server but still I cannot create these clients with the
client id from the old server.  It keeps giving me an error that the
client exists (which it
doesn't) with a different client id.  Does anyone have any ideas on how
to get this fixed?  I have an open call with EMC but it took them over a
week to contact me regarding my questions on the best way to do this
migration and I fear that it will take forever to get this done. Any
help is appreciated.  Thanks.

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