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Re: [Networker] Transitioning to new server - different OS

2003-01-03 08:55:00
Subject: Re: [Networker] Transitioning to new server - different OS
From: Teresa Biehler <tpbsys AT RIT DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 08:50:13 -0500
The technical bulletin you refer to only applies to version 5.5.x and
earlier.  What version were you attempting to transfer?

Thanks.
Teresa

Matthew Bourne wrote:
>
> Teresa,
>
> Unless anything has changed dramatically since 6.1, you are out of luck.
>
> We went through a very protracted process with our support company and, in
> turn, Legato, to discover that Legato do not support the transfer of the
> NetWorker server from one OS to another, not even between different UNIX
> flavours (we moved from Solaris to HPUX).  Legato technical bulletin 121
> applies.
>
> We were able to recover the "res" directory from mmrecov, but the media
> database was unusable, hence it was not possible to recover client indexes
> either.  There followed a long and painful process of "scanner -i" to re-
> create both the media database and the client indexes.  Once scanned in,
> however, the browse and retention policies for the scanned-in savesets had
> to be adjusted.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Matthew
>
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