The only issue that I do not see specifically addressed (maybe I missed
it), is the HOSTID issue - if your new hardware causes you to get a new
hostid (not sure in the unix world, in the windows world, it would),
then you would need to transfer all of your licenses to the new hostid.
It's pretty straight forward, but can be time consuming it you have to
re-authorize 30-40 enablers.  I you have just a handful, it won't be
bad. 

David M. Browning Jr.
IT Project Coordinator Enterprise Backups and Help Desk

 
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Steve Harris
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:12 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Upgrading Networker & moving to a new server

Morning all,

We are running Networker Server version 6.x on an old, but maintained,
server and now wish to move to new hardware and upgrade to Networker
7.4.

I am thinking we need to upgrade to 7.4 on the old server before
transferring to the new hardware, but have a few questions:

  . should we be able to get an enabler to go straight from 6.x to 7.4
    or is it advisable to go through stages. (We have been on
maintenance
    throughout but currently only have the enablers to 7.1)

  . I have read somewhere that do not need an enabler to move to new
    server hardware if you are maintaining the same hostname and IP
    address, is this the case?

  . Is it possible to restore the client indexes if the server
    architecture is changing, or do the tapes need to be re-scanned
    using scanner?
    (We have successfully tested recovery of the media data from a
    backup created using 'savegrp -O')

Please no flaming about running a old versions of Networker. One has
to fix the broken before getting to fix the working but old!

Many thanks for any advice

Steve

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