Are you going to keep the name the server name the same?
If so, this is very straight forward thing to do, although you can do it
2 different ways, depending on your comfort level.
We recently did this, and with the exception of 7.4.4 bugs, are running
just fine.
First off, if you are going to upgrade to 7.4.4 (I would argue against
it at this point in time), then do it on the old hardware.
Then make sure the new hardware has the SAME EXACT VERSION of networker
on it - 7.4.4 or 7.4.1 with any hot fixes applied.
In our case, we then ran about 15 steps to copy all data from the OLD
server to the NEW server, including renaming the new server to the old
server name, including IP address. If you do this correctly, and power
down the old server, once you reboot the new server, you will be good to
go. You will then have 45 days to re-authorize your license enablers to
the new hostid (any time you change hardware, your hostid changes).
In order to be brief, I'm summarizing some detailed steps. IN the end,
we completed this over 2 "daytimes" - the upgrade to 7.4.4 on day 1, let
the backups run over night, and then on day 2 move the data to the new
server.
Of course, you could also simply do a disaster recovery on to the new
hardware, but at that point, you would have to "nsrck -L7" on each one
of your indexes. In our case, that would have been over 200 commands,
so we chose not to go this route. If you have a small number of
clients, this is probably the easiest route to go.
Good luck.
David M. Browning Jr.
IT Project Coordinator Enterprise Backups and Help Desk
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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of SMarie
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 3:14 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Migrate clients to new Networker Server??
We are currently running Networker v7.4.1 on Windows 2003 Server. And
I'm looking to migrate to new server hardware. I will install a clean
OS and Networker Mangement software on the server and I had a couple of
questions on how to migrate clients over and still retain the index and
media info to be able to restore data.
1) Do I need to install the same version on the new server? v7.4.1? or
should I installed v7.4.4? Or do I need to upgrade the current server
before migrating clients?
2) What is the best way to migrate over client info? Copy indexes and
migrate client by client? What media info needs to be moved over so I
can still restore?
*I would like to start with dev server and move them over and make sure
backups run ok before migrating over critical systems.
Any helpful hints/tips are GREATLY appreciated.
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