When we migrated from BE 8.6 we did as Vincent.
We looked into BE reader option and dropped it.
We ejected all our BE tapes from our library, disconnected the BE backup 
server from the library.
Build a new server for NBU connected to the library and took it from there on.

By the way, we never needed to restore anything from BE and now all the BE 
tapes scratched and used in NBU

/johnny

At 09:40 23-03-2004 -0500, Dibonge, Rudy wrote:
>Thanks for the responses. I spoke to our sales rep and he will verify if
>Netbackup 5.x is able to read backup exec tapes.
>
>Rudy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vincent_Mase AT harvardpilgrim DOT org
>[mailto:Vincent_Mase AT harvardpilgrim DOT org]
>Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 9:16 PM
>To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: [Veritas-bu] Re: BackupExec Migration
>
>
>We recently migrated from BE to Netbackup and had the same concern about
>reading the BackupExec
>Media.   We were going to use the Netbackup BE tape reader option, which is
>basically a BE
>installation sitting inside of Netbackup.  We decided not to do this, in
>fact Veritas strongly
>advised against the BE tape reader option, because it added complexity and
>another layer to
>troubleshoot if anything went wrong w/ the installation. Our BE installation
>included the SSO option
>so all the catalogs resided on a single BE server.  We kept this server in
>place, and attached to
>our SAN fabric, stopping all BE services and setting them to manual. If we
>had a very large restore
>we shut down NBU, bring up BE which could access our tape library, import
>the required tapes and run
>the restore.  This also gave us a fallback plan if anything went wrong w/
>the NBU installation.  We
>also installed BE on a separate server w/ a single direct attached tape
>drive, and migrated the BE
>catalog and PVL.mdb file to that server and used it for smaller day to day
>file restores.  As time
>went by the restore requests from the old BE tapes became less and less.
>Eventually we retired the
>SAN attached BE installation.  At this point the BE media is almost all
>expired and usable in
>Netbackup, and what's left is archival media that will probably never be
>used again.
>
>
>Vincent Mase
>Perot Systems
>
>
>
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