> From: Nico De Ranter <nico AT SONYCOM DOT COM>
> Reply-To: EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>, 
> Nico De
> Ranter <nico AT SONYCOM DOT COM>
> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:17:38 +0200
> To: <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
> Subject: [Networker] Moving the NMC to a different architecture
> 
> Hi,
> 
> has anybody succeeded in moving/restoring the Networker Management
> Console (7.5SP1) to a different server architecture?  The 7.5 admin
> guide seems to suggest this is not possible but I find it hard to
> believe that this would make it impossible for me to migrate to another
> server platform ever.  I have a fairly simple setup with 1
> server/storage node running on Solaris 10 AMD and 1 NMC running on a
> legacy Solaris 10 SPARC (as there was(is?) no NMC version for Solaris 10
> AMD). As I'm running out of old SPARC hardware I really need to move the
> NMC to either a Solaris 10 AMD or a Redhat Linux x86 platform.
> 
> What kind of information is stored in the NMC database? Could I just
> remove the current NMC server, install a brand new one and go from
> there?  My NMC server crashed a few days ago but the backups are still
> running fine. 

The database stores the information about who is authorized to use NMC and
their respective passwords, plus backup history for the servers you manage
with NMC.

I moved my NMC a few months ago without incident, but I didn't bother to
copy over the database. I just did a standard install of the NMC portion of
the tar file for 7.4.4 then I set up new accounts for people and let them
select their passwords. Since moving NMC off one of my NetWorker servers to
its own system (actually a Linux VM), it has been running much better. Note
that you also need to set up proper authorizations on the NetWorker servers.

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