Your plan sounds fine, but you would do well to review the NetWorker Disaster
Recovery manual, which is available on PowerLink.
On 08 16, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Michael Leone wrote:
> OK, I may just have made my life easier ... the boss and I think the
> easiest thing to do is:
>
> 1. Remove new server from AD domain
> 2. Rename old NW server to new server name (there's a procedure for that
> somewhere, I believe)
> 3. Take final bootstrap backup with new server name.
> 4. Remove from domain.
> 5. Power on new hardware, and rename to desired new name, and join domain
> 6. Do a D/R recover ("mmrecov") of Networker, using the bootstrap made in
> step 3
>
> Have I missed anything? It's that procedure to rename the NW server that I
> now have to go investigate ...
>
> --
> Michael Leone
> Network Administrator, ISM
> Philadelphia Housing Authority
> 2500 Jackson St
> Philadelphia, PA 19145
> Tel: 215-684-4180
> Cell: 215-252-0143
> <mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>
>
>
> EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on
> 08/16/2010 10:25:00 AM:
>
>> From: Michael Leone <Michael.Leone AT PHA.PHILA DOT GOV>
>> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>> Date: 08/16/2010 10:27 AM
>> Subject: [Networker] Advice on moving *and* renaming NW server
>> Sent by: EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
>>
>> I have a NW 7.4.5 server, running on Win 2003. This week I will be
>> upgrading it to 7.5.3. Next week, this server is scheduled to be
> replaced
>> - all of it's information will be migrated to a new server, with a new
>> name (the old server name has an underscore ("_") in it, and while
> Windows
>> doesn't mind that, it doesn't conform to our [current] server naming
>> practices).
>>
>> So, how would I best go about doing this? I can't rename the current
>> server. So how can I restore all my media history to this new machine,
>> with a different name? (I only have a few clients of this Power Edition
> of
>> NW, and I know all their clientids, so re-creating the clients isn't a
>> problem. Keeping the last few years of history (for recovers) is the
>> problem),
>>
>> I've seen the procedure for renaming a NW server, but that seems to
>> presuppose an existing installation. And this new server doesn't have
>> Networker installed yet. If I install Networker, it will be with the new
>
>> name of the server. So how can I "import" all the media history from the
>
>> old server name, to the new server name? (I realize that "import" is not
>
>> the proper term, but that's effectively what I need to do).
>>
>> Thanks for any pointers
>>
>> --
>> Michael Leone
>> Network Administrator, ISM
>> Philadelphia Housing Authority
>> 2500 Jackson St
>> Philadelphia, PA 19145
>> Tel: 215-684-4180
>> Cell: 215-252-0143
>> <mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>
>>
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