Copying catalog from Win OS to Solaris:
- First of all take a proper catalog backup
- Stop NetBackup on source machine (Win OS)
- Decompress catalog (if needed) ( bpimage -decompress -allclients)
- Convert to ASCII (if needed) (cat_convert b2a) (I believe on Win OS this is 
already ASCII)
- Stop Netbackup on the target machine
- Copy over all images from source to target (AS ASCII !!) 
(\veritas\netbackup\db\images)
- Start NetBackup on target machine
- Try to browse through some restores
- On target machine (Solaris) convert the catalog to bin (much faster) 
(cat_convert a2b)
- On target machine compress catalog if needed


Best Regards,

Bart WALLEBROEK


Systems & Applications Management & Support Specialist 
CustOPS - SDC Deployment
Tel: + 32 2 655 30 75    Mobile: + 32 478 31 61 77
S.W.I.F.T. SCRL

Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:24:40 -0500
From: "Steven L. Sesar" <ssesar at mitre.org>
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Migrate NBU 5.1 from Windows 2003 to Solaris
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To: "Ellis, Jason" <Jason.Ellis at indymacbank.com>
Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Message-ID: <456F3E08.7070308 at mitre.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Ellis, Jason wrote:
>
> What, if any, caveats do I need to be aware of when migrating 
> NetBackup 5.1 from Windows 2003 to Solaris? Is it even possible?
>

Many, many caveats - NOT for the faint of heart!!!!

>  
>
> Can I simply copy over the contents of the '\NetBackup\db'; 
> '\NetBackup\var'; and '\Volmgr\database' from Windows to Solaris?
>

No, you can't.

>  
>
> Thank you in advanced!
>
>  
>
> Jason Ellis
> Technical Consultant, Data Protection Team
> IndyMac Bank, La Mirada Datacenter
> Phone: (714) 520-3414
>
> Mobile: (714) 889-8734



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