When using the -dhost option do you also specify -r ALL to download and update 
all the images to the new host.  


Micheal wrote:
> I have changed master server name few times (pre Netbackup 6.0). I thought it 
> was pretty simple. Basically it consisted of these 2 steps:
> 
> - Do a COLD backup of catalog on the old server
> - Restore on the new server using bprecover -dhost "NEW_SERVER_NAME" option
> 
> I havent tried this on 6.0 and up.
> 
> MK
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 2/22/10, Ed Wilts <ewilts < at > ewilts.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> > From: Ed Wilts <ewilts < at > ewilts.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Steps to change Master Server Name
> > To: VERITAS-BU < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > Received: Monday, February 22, 2010, 8:32 AM
> > On Mon, Feb 22,
> > 2010 at 7:36 AM, lookn4me <netbackup-forum < at > backupcentral.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I plan to replicate a production environment on a test
> > server, but I need to change the master server name as the
> > test environment will not be isolated.  Anyone out there
> > have success with the process?  The environment is
> > Netbackup 5.1 MP4 on solaris 9 and 10 OS.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > It's doable but very definitely not for the faint
> > of heart and it changes every release.  What you do 
> > in 5.MP4 will definitely not work in 6.x.
> >  
> > A long-time Symantec employee was talking at the last
> > customer forum and said that it takes 30 steps, IN EXACTLY
> > THE RIGHT ORDER, to rename a master server.  Get one step
> > wrong or out of order and you get to restore and start
> > over.  For this reason, Symantec is currently refusing to
> > document the process because can (and have in the past) shot
> > themselves in the feet (and then reloaded :-)).  A
> > supported procedure to rename a master has been requested
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > We did it back in 3.4, changing platforms at the same
> > time,  We didn't get in 1 run either - we found out
> > what was wrong and then started again another day,
> > completing it successfully.
> >  
> >    .../Ed
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