Mike,

To be honest we did it ourselves (HP-UX -> Windows) (together with SUN).
Actually, moving a catalog is not rocket science.
We do not get direct support from Symantec but we always go via SUN so
Symantec is not able to tell us directly that it is not supported.

Best Regards,
Bart WALLEBROEK
Swift

>Message: 1
>Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:58:21 -0700
>From: "Mike Day" <mike.day AT inovis DOT com>
>Subject: [Veritas-bu] Switching Catalog from AIX to Windows
>To: <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
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>I'm doing some project planning on a potential move from AIX for my
>master media server to Windows.  The current version I'm running is 5.1
>MP7 on the AIX box. I migrated from Windows about 5 years ago on a 3.x
>or 4.x sever.  I called Symantec and asked if this could be done and
>they said no - the catalogs are not compatible.  I wanted a second
>opinion so I Googled this and others have attempted migration ... but
>Symantec will not support it unless I pay them for a consultant?
>http://support.veritas.com/docs/267137
><http://support.veritas.com/docs/267137> 
>
> 
>
>How fair is that?  Over 10 years of us using Netbackup to backup 200
>clients, oodles of database licenses ... so we've invested at 
>least half
>a million dollars in licensing fees over the years and now we need to
>pay Symantec to migrate the catalog for us and if we do it ourselves it
>will no longer be supported?
>
> 
>
>Does anyone have any insight on how I should proceed here?
>
> 
>
>Michael H. Day
>Systems Engineer

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