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Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgradation, Consolidation and then Migration :-Few Questions 5.1 to 6.5, windows 2k to win2k8

2011-01-29 10:57:16
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgradation, Consolidation and then Migration :-Few Questions 5.1 to 6.5, windows 2k to win2k8
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
To: "WEAVER, Simon (external)" <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:57:12 -0500 (EST)
Hi,

I agree with Simon, when retention is reasonable, you can keep one system 
or the old robot/media around if needed.  However, if you have a system 
with many years or decades of retention, then you have the problem of 
keeping the images around.

Justin.

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote:

> Pranav
> Officially, the rule is, same server name and same OS.
>
> What I have found in the past is I can move Netbackup to different
> Windows OS, providing the install path is identical.
> However, Server name caused the biggest headache.
>
> I actually found that migrating from server1 to server2 and moving all
> clients over was much easier. And I was still in a position to use the
> old Master / Media servers if required as I could redirect restores.
>
> Officially, Tech Support cannot help. Symatec Professional Services
> (they used to be called) can help with the migration you need.
> But I went my own way, and to be honest, it was no real drama and the
> benefit was a nice clean brand new environment.
> Simon
>
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> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of pranav
> batra
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 8:51 PM
> To: Veritas
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Upgradation, Consolidation and then Migration
> :-Few Questions 5.1 to 6.5, windows 2k to win2k8
>
>
>
> Hello Geeks,
>
> We have one Master Server( NBU 5.1 MP3) + one media server ( NBU 5.1
> MP3).
> Both are on windows 2000 SP4.
>
> Now our task is to upgrade master server to 6.5.
> Upgrade media server to 6.5.
> Decommison the media server and move all the media to master server.
>
>
> Recover the catalog to another server that would be windows2008 with a
> diffrent name:
>
> Steps we have made for this project :
>
>
> 1) Upgrade both master and media to 5.1 Mp7.
> 2) Upgrade master to 6.5
> 3) Upgrade media to 6.5
> 4) Decommison media server and move all media to master server.
> 5) Recover the catalog to new server with a different name.( win2k8 box)
>
> Some questions that I have are :
>
> 1) Can we recover the catalog of windows 2000 machine to windows 2008
> :-As both will be a diffrent hardware ???
> 2) Even the name of the machine to which we have to recover the catalog
> is different:-What all steps we should follow for this ?
>
> Please suggest with your inputs as this a critical activity for us.
>
> Thanks in Advance !!
>
> Pranav
>
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