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From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
On Behalf Of Rick Caldwell
Sent: 18 October 2005 18:50
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Migrate different server and tape technology

I'm going to migrate to a new server and have questions about how to go about 
it.  They are both Solaris systems - the old server is running version 6.1.2 of 
networker with a 8 slot DLT autochanger on it.  I'll be installing networker 
7.2 on the new server and it has a 17 slot LTO 2 drive.  I have several months 
of backups on the old DLT's that I would like to save so I'm not sure how to do 
the migration.  I only have a license for 9 slot autochanger so if I move the 
old DLT autochanger to the new server in addition to the LTO autochanger I'm 
not sure how I can access the old tapes to do recoveries.  Is there a way to do 
this or does it require a new license?  I'd rather not buy a 2nd autochanger 
license for the few months that I need access to the old tapes so not sure if 
there is some other way to do this.  I don't know if the networker license 
would let me access the DLT drive as just a DLT and I could manually work the 
autochanger to select tapes since this doesn't 
happen often.   Also looking through the manual I don't see info on how 
to migrate the old indexes over to the new machine - can I just copy over the 
old nsr directory tree and install as if I were doing an upgrade?  Will I have 
a problem with this since the tape drive is now the new LTO autochanger?  Any 
hints would be appreciated (or pointers to the proper section of the manuals).

Rick

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