Re: [Networker] Merging old database in with new one?

Haven't tried it to be 100% sure, but I'm 99% certain that this will overwrite 
the previous version.  The media database hasn't changed (substantially) 
between versions, just the form of the resource database, and there's no simple 
way to merge NW servers.

Cheers,

Stuart.

-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion on behalf of George Sinclair
Sent: Fri 24-Mar-06 00:09
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Merging old database in with new one?
 
Hi,

If you recover the bootsrap from server A (6.1.1) onto server B (7.2.1; 
server B has same host name and IP while server A is shut down) using 
the standard 'mmrecov' command then what happens to the previous media 
and resource databases on server B that existed prior?

It used to be that 'nsr.res' and 'nsrjb.res' were recovered as 
'nsr.res.R' and 'nsrjb.res.R' so no automatic overwrite, but you'd then 
shut down the server, move the respective '.R' files into place as 
'nsr.res' and 'nsrjb.res' to overwrite the old ones and then restart, so 
it was never a merge, always a manual overwrite. I assume, however, that 
even with 6.1.1 and earlier that during mmrecov the media database would 
always get overwritten and there was no merge, correct? Now that we have 
a /nsr/res/nsrdb under 7.2.1 what happens if you run mmrecov? Is there a 
merge of the recovered database with the one that exists on disk or just 
an overwrite?

george

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