Re: [Veritas-bu] Replacing Physical Server Hardware for Windows Master

This is not supported. Whether or not it will work is a different question. We're going through a similar exercise for our Solaris master that we're upgrading the OS on.

One of the issues you've got is that there is an install database. With your approach, this won't end up on the new server so doing an upgrade or remove is going to have serious issues. You can't just re-install NetBackup on top of the original tree because this has never been tested - If you had a 6.0MP5 full kit, you may get away with it, but I don't believe that exists. That means you'd be installing 6.0MP4 on top of your MP5 installation/catalog and that is certainly a cause for concern.

The supported way is to back up your catalog, install your new server, re-install NetBackup, and restore the catalog. We have been working an open call with Symantec on how to do it for Solaris and they've given us a workaround (with Solaris, you can copy the package database components around). Log a call with Symantec and see what your options are.

.../Ed

On Jan 25, 2008 10:43 AM, Randy Samora <Randy.Samora AT stewart DOT com> wrote:

I'm about to try something that I seem to recall accomplishing before years ago but I drank a lot back then and I may possibly be experiencing the geekiest form of déjà vu imaginable. So I thought I'd bounce the idea off of you and maybe someone can verify that this is going to work.

My Master server (6.0 MP5) is a Windows 2003 server. NetBackup is installed on E: which is a SAN drive. My thoughts are to shut down the old Master, bring up the new Master, same name, IP address, home phone number, the works. When the new server is up, I present the NetBackup LUN from the old server to the new server.

That sounds too easy and I'm wondering if I should do an on top install of NetBackup after the new server comes back up or are ALL of the NetBackup files installed in the NetBackup installation folder? Has anyone ever tried this?

Thanks,
Randy

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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