Thanks David. I ended up taking it back to 6.0 then up to 6.5.5 and restored 
the catalog without any issues.

Now onto 7.0 upgrade... 


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On 2 Feb 2012, at 14:24, David McMullin <David.McMullin AT CBC-Companies DOT 
com> wrote:

> Check the /etc/hosts file, I had a similar problem and found it must have a 
> loopback address defined - 
> 
> 127.0.0.1       localhost  loghost
> 
> Simple, but easily missed.
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:30:38 +0000
> From: Mr Crosby <mr.crosby AT gmail DOT com>
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Recovery 6.5.5
> To: Netback_mailinglist <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
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> 
> I'm trying to recover the catalog at a DR site onto a 6.5.5 Solaris Master 
> server with the same hostname as the live server yet I'm getting failed to 
> execute bprestore error (25)
> EXIT STATUS 25: can't connect on socket 
> 
> Any ideas???
> 
> Mick
> 
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