[Veritas-bu] Restoring catalogs from tape to different host

On Monday 11 November 2002 02:29 pm, Richardson, Robert wrote:
> Andy,
> I disagree with the statement that it is impossible to restore DB catalogs
> to a
> different host.  I have researched this process, and I believe that I have
> documented
> a pretty concise method for doing such a project.
> I was in the process of doing this myself, without any support from
> Veritas. If Veritas support can do it, then it is possible.
>
> If you are interested I can discuss with you the steps that I came up with.
>
>
> Robert Richardson
> Activision Studios
> Unix System Engineer
> 310.255.2247

I'm dubious. 

When you say that you've "researched" this, does that mean you've *actually* 
restored a master server to a server of a different hostname thatn the 
original master server?

If so, I, personally would love to see it, as this would save a whole lot of 
time in the event we need to mobilize our disaster recovery plan.

--Steve


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> From: "Steven L. Sesar" <ssesar AT rcn DOT com>
> To: andy.skates AT btopenworld DOT com, veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT 
> edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring catalogs from tape to different host
> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 09:16:03 -0500
>
> On Monday 11 November 2002 05:11 am, andy.skates AT btopenworld DOT com wrote:
> > I was always under the impression that you could only restore the Master
> > Server catalogs to a server with the same host name.
> >
> > After a conversation with a Veritas consultant recently, I might have
> > been wrong making that assumption.
> >
> > Does anyone know if it is possible to restore the catalogs, from the
> > catalog backup tape, to a server with a different host name?
> >
> >
> >
> > Andy Skates
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> It's basically impossible to restore catalogs to a server with a different
> hostname. The hostname is deeply embedded in the catalogs.
>
> --steve