I haven't started yet, but I plan on moving my Solaris server to Linux. I got
the same response about the endians.
When I think about it, if that was a problem (or *the* problem when doing a
migration), wouldn't simple things like copying files or un-tar'ing files
between the two OS's not work?
-Matt
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:54:53 -0500
George Sinclair <George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There's been a lot of talk over this business of moving from one OS to
> another; e.g. Solaris to Linux. I've heard some different things about
> this, most notably the index problem. Some say it's worked, others have
> said it won't and that you basically have to start over with new
> indexes. Thought some others suggested just starting completely from
> scratch but keep the old server around for any restores from tapes that
> were written to when the old server was in use. Maybe that was with
> Microsoft. Anyway, was there any final consensus on this issue?
>
> Let's say I want to move the primary server from Solaris to Linux. I'm
> not sure which is Big endian or which is little endian. Maybe they're
> both the same, but I'm thinking they're not. Several people have said
> that this endian difference will create problems when you try to read
> the indexes on the new server, although I would assume that since
> they're ordinary files (we're running 6.1.1 so I know they are with that
> release), physically getting them there should not be a problem. Guess
> the bytes are read in a different order, though, or some such thing.
> Can't recall my Jonathan Swift details on that, but I do recall the main
> problem spoken of was the transferring of the client indexes from one
> endian to a different endian. Was this in fact the real only concern
> when moving from one platform to another?
>
> If so, then I assume all the other operations on the new server like
> accessing the media database, recovering data from old tapes using
> saveset recover, writing to old tapes that still have space and running
> commands like mminfo, nsrinfo, etc. should all work on the new OS as
> they did before against the old information that was copied?
>
> Why does Legato not make an index convertor? Would that be too hard?
>
> Thanks.
>
> George
>
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