Folks,
Our company has decided to change Master Server platform
from v5.1 on Windows 2000 to V6.5 on Solaris 10. We have a large catalog
with retention times of several years on the images and 2000 plus LTO-1
tapes. The plans also included moving to LTO-4 and introducing
disk. I have identified three options for moving forward:
- Upgrade the existing 5.1
system to 6.5 and merge/move catalog to the new 6.5 Solaris platform
- Import the
“essential” media from the 5.1 system to the new 6.5 system
- Run the 5.1 system in
“restore only” mode until images expire
Option 3 will mean upgrading to 6.x anyway to ensure
continued support and the requirement could run to 5-7 years which seems to
discount it.
Option 2 will still involve hundreds if not thousands of
tapes and could take months?
Option 1 seems the best way forward but will I need
Symantec to get involved? Is it possible to recover the catalog and NBDB
from one platform (Windows) onto another (Solaris)? One issue that comes
to mind is compressed images. I know we compress after 40 days and
suspect I will have to uncompress on source system before migrating anyway!
Has anyone got experience of Option 1 that they can
share? Have I missed an alternative approach?
Regards,
Paul Esson
Redstor Limited
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