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[Networker] Migrate clients to new Networker Server??

2009-03-05 11:45:22
Subject: [Networker] Migrate clients to new Networker Server??
From: eljub <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 07:14:29 -0500
soupdragon wrote:
> From the Disaster Recovery manual:
> 
> Note: The mmrecov command is used to recover only the media database and 
> resource files. To recover the client file indexes (including the NetWorker 
> server?s own client file index), use the nsrck command. The NetWorker Command 
> Reference Guide provides details about the mmrecov and nsrck commands
> 
> After mmrecov completes, the Networker service needs to be stopped, the 
> recovered nsr res.R directory renamed and the service restarted. My guess is 
> that nsrck -L7 is failing because it expecting the server name to be that of 
> the old server. You can modify the local /etc/hosts file (assuming this is 
> first name resolution preference) and add the old hostname before the new. 
> Then the nsrck -L7 should work.
> 
> There are a number of different scenarios concerning recovery of one server 
> to another in the Recovery Roadmaps section of the Disater Recovery Guide


Hello, thanks for the tip with the host file but it doesn't work.
The nsrck -L7 shows alway the same error. "can't find index backups for ..."

Is it so strange to create a new server ?
There is no way to import the index files in it ??
Like this nsrck -L7 -import "oldserver"

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