>From what I read of the OP, I think he wanted to import a particular
tape that had the client's backup image on it.....NOT migrate the entire
catalog to the Windows Master.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
> Stump, Robert (Contractor) (J6B)
> Sent: February 18, 2005 7:30 AM
> To: 'Brzozowski, Dwayne'; 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] DR Test
> 
> 
> How to migrate a UNIX NetBackup server to Windows (or vice-versa) 
> http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/267137.htm
> 
> Details:
> The way VERITAS NetBackup (tm) server processes read and 
> write the database
> is completely different between (all) UNIX platforms and 
> Windows platform.
> This makes it technically impossible for a UNIX server to read catalog
> databases from a Windows server. Thus, it is not possible to 
> migrate the
> catalog from UNIX to Windows and therefore is unsupported.
> 
> When migrating environment from a UNIX platform to Windows, you must
> understand that the catalog cannot be migrated, so you will, 
> in essence, be
> setting up a complete new Windows environment, then moving 
> all clients to
> this environment. Backups and restores from here on will be 
> new. All old
> backups performed from previous UNIX environments will not be 
> migrated to
> the Windows server.
> 
> Depending on how backups are written on the UNIX media 
> servers, it may be
> possible to import each tape one at a time into a Windows 
> media server, thus
> enabling restore capabilities. It is also possible to 
> configure a UNIX media
> server alongside a Windows master server to perform these 
> manual imports of
> each tape. Please refer to the NetBackup System 
> Administrator's Guide for
> your specific version of NetBackup for more information on 
> importing images.
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
> Brzozowski,
> Dwayne
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 6:14 PM
> To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] DR Test
> 
> Hello,
> I/my group has been assigned an upcoming Disaster Recovery Test. I am
> suppose to do something that I have never tried, but I hope 
> someone here
> has. I have a NetBackup 4.5FP4 client, running Solaris 7, 
> which backs up to
> a Solaris 9, NB FP4 master server. I also have an NT master, 
> separate from
> Sun master. I have been tasked with importing the media for 
> the Sun client
> into the Windows master. When/if that is done, I then have to 
> restore all
> databases to that client from the Windows master. The client 
> will have a
> fresh os and that's all.  Has anyone ever done this or point 
> me in the right
> direction? Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> Dwayne 
> 
> Dwayne J. Brzozowski
> Department of Veterans Affairs
> Night Shift Supervisor-Unix Group
> Austin Automation center
> dwayne.brzozowski AT mail.va DOT gov
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