On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Fluharty, John wrote:

> I am in the middle of upgrading from 5.1MP4 to 6.5MP1.  They have a master 
> and 10 media servers, all HP-UX.  Each media server has an Oracle db, so we 
> are forced to do one at a time and in the off hours.  This upgrade process 
> will take several weeks because of their change control process.
Ouch.

> The question is this.  During the time we are in a "hybrid state", 6.5 master 
> with some media servers 5.1 and some 6.5
You should open a case with Symantec, the master could be 6.5 (are you sure
you want to go to 6.5 or something more stable, 6.0MPX?) and the media servers
could be 6.0, but I am not sure you would want to run a 6.5 master with 5.1
media servers.

> what is the DR procedure for recovering all of the media databases using a 
> hot catalog backup? 
Why would would you do this and not just upgrade the software?

> Does the hot catalog backup grab the 5.1 media databases, or does it need to?
This is a good question, I do not know.

> What is the recovery procedure for these media databases?  What exactly does 
> the "nbpushdata -modify_5x_hosts" command accomplish?  The Hot Catalog 
> recovery wizard walks through the catalog and EMM recovery but does not run 
> the 5.x recovery.  I am having trouble finding this procedure.
Good questions..  but back to my original question, why not upgrade the 
software in-place?  What you are describing sounds like a complete 
re-installation of the operating system / etc - then you would/may need to 
perform this sort of recovery, is that what you are doing or are you just 
upgrading the software?

Justin.

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