OK, we have a new 7.5SP1 test server with eval license. We'll be
recovering the media database (mmrecov) and indexes from the old server.
The old server is still our production machine, however. Both systems
have different host/IP addresses/names so no DNS confusion, and both
can, therefore, be up simultaneously.
We'd like to be able to test out recovers and such (nwrecover, save set
recover) on the new machine using media that was written to on the old
machine. Obviously, the recovered media database will quickly be out of
date with the old (production) server, but that's OK as we're just
testing things up to the point where mmrecov was last run. This may
require a few weeks of testing, possibly including another mmrecov to
get subsequent changes, before we go production on the new server and do
the host transfer.
HERE'S MY QUESTION:
Once we do the initial media database recovery on the new server, and
subsequent recover of our indexes, is the new server going to continue
to allow us to operate with information that it knows can from another
server, using our existing eval license? Or will it disable itself and
force us to do the host transfer? If so, how can we test anything on the
new box, using the recovered media database, without decommissioning our
current production server?
And can we add a 45-day enabler to extend it? I know you can do that if
you're operating out of box, but the fact that we will have recovered
the media database from the other machine makes me wonder if it will
honor a 45-day enabler.
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To be clear, I'm not trying to install/use licenses on the new server
that came from the current (old) server. Obviously, those won't work
since they're licensed to a different host id. And, yes, we will have to
exchange (host transfer) those for new licenses once we're ready to go
into production on the new server, and the old server will then be shut
down, but do we have to do this immediately?
Following 'mmrecov', NW will be stopped on the new server, 'res.R' will
be renamed to 'res', and then NW will be restarted. At that point,
aren't those old licenses from the old server going to be restored? Will
it get confused? Will we have to remove them?
I'm not sure where 7.5SP1 stores licenses. Under 7.2.x, I thought it was
under /nsr/lic, but I don't see that directory under /nsr under 7.5SP11?
Thanks!
George
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