It has been a while, but I believe I did selective restores, just restored the 
image database and not the VOL databases.

--- On Mon, 2/22/10, lookn4me <netbackup-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:

> From: lookn4me <netbackup-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
> Subject: [Veritas-bu]  Steps to change Master Server Name
> To: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
> Received: Monday, February 22, 2010, 12:31 PM
> 
> When using the -dhost option do you also specify -r ALL to
> download and update all the images to the new host.  
> 
> 
> Micheal wrote:
> > I have changed master server name few times (pre
> Netbackup 6.0). I thought it was pretty simple. Basically it
> consisted of these 2 steps:
> > 
> > - Do a COLD backup of catalog on the old server
> > - Restore on the new server using bprecover -dhost
> "NEW_SERVER_NAME" option
> > 
> > I havent tried this on 6.0 and up.
> > 
> > MK
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Mon, 2/22/10, Ed Wilts <ewilts < at >
> ewilts.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > From: Ed Wilts <ewilts < at >
> ewilts.org>
> > > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Steps to change Master
> Server Name
> > > To: VERITAS-BU < at >
> mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > > Received: Monday, February 22, 2010, 8:32 AM
> > > On Mon, Feb 22,
> > > 2010 at 7:36 AM, lookn4me <netbackup-forum
> < at > backupcentral.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I plan to replicate a production environment on a
> test
> > > server, but I need to change the master server
> name as the
> > > test environment will not be isolated.  Anyone
> out there
> > > have success with the process?  The environment
> is
> > > Netbackup 5.1 MP4 on solaris 9 and 10 OS.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > It's doable but very definitely not for the
> faint
> > > of heart and it changes every release.  What you
> do 
> > > in 5.MP4 will definitely not work in 6.x.
> > >  
> > > A long-time Symantec employee was talking at the
> last
> > > customer forum and said that it takes 30 steps,
> IN EXACTLY
> > > THE RIGHT ORDER, to rename a master server.  Get
> one step
> > > wrong or out of order and you get to restore and
> start
> > > over.  For this reason, Symantec is currently
> refusing to
> > > document the process because can (and have in the
> past) shot
> > > themselves in the feet (and then reloaded :-)). 
> A
> > > supported procedure to rename a master has been
> requested
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  
> > > We did it back in 3.4, changing platforms at the
> same
> > > time,  We didn't get in 1 run either - we found
> out
> > > what was wrong and then started again another
> day,
> > > completing it successfully.
> > >  
> > >    .../Ed
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