Interesting question!

Matt Hemingway wrote:
>
> 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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