On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 07:36 -0600, 
> From: "WEAVER, Simon" <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net>
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 13:26:21 -0000 
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 3.4 Windows NT 4 to 2000/2003
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> Hi All,
> I am looking for some ideas or possible suggestions on this!
>  
> Presently, we are migrating all NT 4 Servers to a new Windows 2003 Domain. I
> have an NBU 3.4 on NT 4 that performs almost every backup for all clients in
> the Network.
>  
> As the old NT Domain needs to be shutdown, I want to look at possible ways
> to migrate NBU 3.4 to 2003. I have checked the veritas site, but do not see
> any real migration methods to move from 3.4 and I recall someone mentioning
> this was not going to be supported anymore, so I know there is not going to
> be much assistance from Veritas.
>  
> Has anyone had any involvement in performing a migration from NT to 2003 (or
> 2000).
>  
> Appreciate any opinions on this? I did think that I could use a NBU 5.x
> Master Server and create new backup policies on this Server (which is in a
> 2003 Domain).
>  
> Thank you in advance
>  
> 
> Simon 
> 
The simplest and easiest way to do this is to think about this as a D/R
exercise, which then makes the task very simple. Here's what you do:

1) Install Windows 2003 and all applicable patches (reboot if necessary)

2) Install Netbackup as the Master (Use the same name as the old Master)

3) Install the latest NBU Maintenance Pack (if 5.1 use MP3A or MP4)

4) Do a complete manual catalog recovery. This will bring back all your
policies and configuration information. This is a raw recovery so the
command is issued like this:

bprecover -r ALL -tpath \\.\Tape1. <<--- the Catalog is loaded here

 

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Ed Gurski <ed AT gurski DOT com>