Hi There,
Tricky ... but just adding two different servers I have never managed to get
right. The issue here is that the indexes are stored against the backup
server name - so even if you recover them to a new server it wont register
as the names differ. I havent tested this myself, but if you are desperate
you might try the following:
Please remember to have SAFE copies of you current bootsrap / index backups
somewhere!
Rename one (or both) of the servers to the name of the other (remember cant
have two machine on the same network with the same name), or to a new name
...
Then it is a question of doing your index backups on each of these machines
(with this "new" name).
Next you have to recover all of these indexes (stored against that "new"
name) to a server ...
Once you either have both sets on a new machine or both on one of the
machine (against that "new" name) you can change the server name to be what
you want - or if you want then go through a process of upgrading Legato etc.
I do a similar process when upgrading a machine to a new version of Legato
on new hardware ....
I hope this helps, if it doesnt I am sure I will suffer from some severe
memory loss and wont remember this mail ...
Riaan
-----Original Message-----
From: Davina Treiber [mailto:Treiber AT HOTPOP DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 8:33 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Merging two servers
Aurea Cruz wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> We are demoting a backup server to become a storage node of a larger
server, and I can't find documentation about this.
> My goal is to transfer the client indices and corresponding media entries.
I have data that is kept for a year, so even though it's only 12 clients,
they are large servers and I have almost 600 tapes.
> I'm planning on using nsrck -L7 but I don't want to move all the media
before I know it works. (these are DB servers that can't live without
cleaning their log areas with a backup every few hours).
> scanner -i [-c client] was my other alternative, but do I really have to
read all 600 tapes...?The only index I don't care about is the old server's,
so that one is going to go to a new client id, but all the rest will have to
be imported.
> Has anybody tried this (and had success!)? Thanks in advance!
> Aure
There is no published way to merge two media databases. I used to be a
consultant with Legato Systems, and even then I never heard of any way
to do this. If it is possible then it is a closely guarded secret.
So, basically I don't think you can do this.
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