You can restore the catalogue data to a seperate server then transfer
the image directory to the production server.  I have done partial
catalogue restores with this method using tar and the path of the image
I was looking for.  Then just ftp'd the image into my production
server's images directory.  Worked fine, should also work fine for the
entire thing.
I would just do an standard recover to another box though to save time
since you want almost everything anyway.

~JK

> "Donaldson, Mark" wrote:
> 
> So - my question about renaming my master/media server gathered a few
> responses.  Let's look at a suggested alternative, reinstalling.
> 
> This may be desirable just so I can take the Sun box from Sol 2.6 to
> Sol 8.
> 
> Let's say I do a full reinstall of Solaris & NB, renaming the
> master/media server in the process - is there a way to import or
> transfer my catalog & media information without rereading all 380
> tapes?
> 
> -M
> 
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> 
>    Mark Donaldson - Sr. Systems Engineer
>    Experian - Denver Colorado
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> 
>         There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those
>           that understand binary and those that don't.
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