Christophe,
You can upgrade the solaris installation and copy the class directory. Doing that you will move all policies easily.
Also there is a technote at Symantec site that describe the recovery without import method. You can use this method to move the images and the tapes from the solaris cluster to the standalone linux server. Both systems must have the same NBU version.
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH28722
If you follow this procedure, you can (must ) open a case to support and ask for catalog consistency repair. The tapes will be marked as full and after expire you can reuse them.
stefanos
Hello,
we have also to move our Netbackup master server ( 6.5.4) in Solaris 10 ( cluster config) to linux 2.6 Netbackup ( 7.1 ) .
Our plan is very close to your Option 2 .
keep existing Master and catalog to " archiving" .
Start with a new catalog on linux cluster config with Netbackup 7.1 with moving step by step policies .
Christophe Wegrzyniak
Unix & ICSD Infrastructure
Clearstream Services
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We have a midsize NBU environment consist of 1 master and 6 media servers. Windows 32bit NBU7.0.1 backing up around 60-70 TB per week. Good portion of the data coming from ndmp. Front-end connected to a VTL and backend to a Spectra....The master catalog has grown to about 450 GB.
We are getting close to a hardware refresh on our master and media servers.... Here is what I was thinking...
Option 1: Just refresh the hardware building a 64bit Windows 2008 server and keeping everything the same.
1B: instead of keeping the catalog on a local disk - possibly we can direct connect to one of our filers and dump the catalog there.
Option 2: Keeping the existing 32bit master and add a new 64bit Windows 2008 Master (using a different name) restore only the policies and start to run jobs off the new master. Keeping the existing master for restore purposes. This way I can start a fresh catalog and keep it locally and will have plenty of space for growth.
Any solid advice is much appreciated, please include why you would choose one over the other and if you think any potential issues/difficulties with either option.
By all means if you had similar situation and you resolved it completely different using a different strategy, please do share as well.
I'm open to new ideas!
thanks in advance!
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