David,
What I've done several times in the past when I'm moving Networker to
new hardware is just do a fresh install on the new hardware and just
keep the old Networker Server around long enough to do any restores I
might need to make until it ages out (1 quarter in our case but I
usually kept it for at least 6 months). But we keep a separate (from
Networker) database of our backups and archives so for the very
occasional restore of something older from our archival backups I can
figure out the tape I need and scanner it in to run the restore. The
biggest problem I have now is finding the right hardware to read some of
our oldest archives (15 years old on 8mm 2 & 5 GB tapes).
So, if you can stand to let your current Networker DB go I suggest a
fresh start on the new system.
Dave
Dave Werth
Garmin AT, Inc.
Salem, Oregon
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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
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Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 4:04 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] 7.1.2 to 7.2.2
I've inherited a legacy NetWorker setup: it's currently running on an
aging IRIX system (6.5.18m).
My current thoughts for upgrading are:
. upgrade to 7.2.2, still on IRIX
. verify I didn't break anything
. copy /nsr to Solaris, still 7.2.2
. verify
. upgrade to some newer version
I'd prefer to change only one thing at a time, even if it means more
work/time. Multiple moving parts tends to cause bad things to happen.
I know things have changed a lot, so I want to re-orient myself with
the new versions. Also, moving to Solaris (which I'm more familiar
with), I would probably have to reconfigure our library (ST L180) and
drives (FC LTO-1).
Besides the obvious activator code, are there any gotchas with
upgrading to 7.2?
For Solaris, since IRIX MIPS and UltraSPARC are both big-endian: I'm
assuming that I don't have to worry about any kind of index file
issues, and that a straight copy should be sufficient. Is this a valid
assumption?
I'd also have to adjust the licensing (hostid) when moving to the
Solaris 10 machine.
Am I missing any major pieces?
Thanks for any info.
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