Let me pose a rather strange question,

Why migrate?

The old server could be used (even without a license) to do recovery of any 
backup made on this platform.

In the mean time step by step start backing up any client from the old server 
on the new one (so a new client is defined and the first backup will be a 
full one).

Over time all clients will have been migrated to the new server and over time 
the old one 'fades away'. After all clients have moved the old server could 
be switched off but that will not expire any more tapes so keeping it on and 
making sure the index processes run once a week would be a good idea.

Only archives then have to be scanned into the new server if you have them.

Of cource it all depends on the volume of clients and the expire times that 
are set on the savesets.

As tapes from the old server start to expire over time they can be reused on 
the new (windows) server, if the media is the same for both.

It looks like a more gradual approach (from where I am sitting that is)

Any way, good luck with the project.

Maarten

On Thursday 15 December 2005 20:14, Kathleen Scalise wrote:
> HELP!!  This will be probably be the first of very many questions.
>
> We are migrating Legato Networker from UNIX to Windows.  UNIX we are
> running NetWorker 6.1.3Build 428 and on Windows we are running NetWorker
> 7.1.3.Build 404.  THis is not going to be FUN, however I have been
> admining NetWorker for about 4 years now, and luckily I have never had
> to 'scan' a tape!!  However, setting this up from scratch is a first.
>
> I have 'manually' created the clients using the client id's from the UNIX
> server.  That is about as far as I have gotten, I plan to create new
> pools, groups, schedules etc (unless one of you wise posters from the
> group advise me otherwise...but it really does need to be cleaned up).
> Any tips/tricks that anybody can provide would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Here is the questio/problem...
>
> I backed up a client on the UNIX box, it is a final backup for this
> client.  I wanted to ensure that if they need anything from this tape I
> would be able to get it back for them on the Windows box.  Also figured I
> would do some testing.
>
> D:\Program Files\Legato\nsr>scanner \\.\Tape0
> scanner: scanning 8mm AIT-2 tape CB1327 on \\.\Tape0
>
> I checked the daemon.log and found
> 12/15/05 13:45:05 nsrmmdbd: can't fetch old save set id 2710926081
> 12/15/05 13:45:05 nsrmmdbd: can't fetch old save set id 2710926337
>  (Those are the correct save sets).
>
> So I panicked and aborted...was it working??
>
> scanner: the following save sets are still incomplete:
> jax4msqq1    d:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
> Server\MSSQL\BACKUP\AdminServer_DB_DO_NOT_ERASE_Original_UAT.bak 12/15/05
> 11:09  f         0      0 2710926081 B
> jax4msqq1    d:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
> Server\MSSQL\BACKUP\AdminServer_1028
>  12/15/05 11:09  f         0      0 2710926337 B
> scanner: Press:
>         c<RETURN> to continue
>         n<RETURN> to go to next volume
>         q<RETURN> to quit
>
>  >q
>
> scanner: quitting
> scanner: ssid 2710926081: NOT complete
> scanner: ssid 2710926081: 8423 MB
> scanner: ssid 2710926337: NOT complete
> scanner: ssid 2710926337: 8401 MB
> scanner: done with 8mm AIT-2 tape CB1327
>
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