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Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Move
2008-12-14 00:38:39
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Disagreeing with Ed is usually bad juju but in this
case I've done several doman migrations on Master/Media
running 5.1 and 6.0 without issue on Windows 2003. Netbackup doesn't seem
to care that your host's FQDN is changing from server.domain.xyz to
server.domain.abc. As long as your clients forward / reverse DNS is
working everything should be fine. If your client's bp.confs are using the
FQDN then yes you will need to change this on all your
clients.
Further, its not the cleanest thing in the world but if
you absolutely had to change your server's name despite the woeful news below
you can still happily do restores from your catalog, you just have to manage
your IMAGES folder manually and take care not to overwrite the media. This
is the back bone of my current DR technique and I've tested it several times and
it works flawlessly.
Finally, your master server does not care where data
gets restored to so you can change the name and domain of both your master and
client and you will still be able to restore data. Per my note above, just note
than changing the master's name makes things tricky. As usual make sure
you have a complete catalog backup before you do anything.
Good luck! If you get stuck give me a
shout.
-Jonathan
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Mike Day <mike.day AT inovis DOT com> wrote:
On Monday
I will be moving my Netbackup server to a new office.
I've never done a move like this but it
seems to me like this should not be difficult. Here are the steps I
think I need to do:
- Change
the 1st 'Server =' line to the name of the server on the
'bp.conf'. It will have the same server name but the domain will be a
new trusted domain.
This suggests to me that you're changing the name of the master
server. This is not supported and simply changing the host name like this
will *NOT* work.
Since I
will be using the same catalog I will be able to restore the files from my old
clients to the new clients if necessary. I will be using the same LTO-3
tapes from the other office. The only stuff I think I will need to
restore are the from the Windows Exchange server which moved to the same
office Netbackup is moving to a few weeks ago and a Windows file server that
is being moved to a different
office.
If the master
server name changes, your original catalog will not work. There are
embedded server names in the various files, including the device manager.
The fully qualified master server name must not change. A few people have
done it without Symantec Professional Services but it's non-trivial and it's
very unlikely you'll have a detailed task list in place by Monday.
.../Ed
Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP,
BCSD, SCSP, SCSE
ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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