Hi Steve,

You are going to get a lot of responses to this question.  I can answer
a few of these, and will probably be corrected as well.  

First if my memory serves me, going from 6.x to 7.x is a laborious task.
Indexes will need to be converted and depending on what hardware you are
running it on and OS this can take a couple hours.  Also that depends on
the size of your client indexes.  Ours are HUGE 30-50 gigs, so it took
awhile.  Consider that for the upgrade.  We are a Solaris shop and our
first migration was on a Sun 220r.  

I do not know if it is possible but probably so to go straight from 6.x
to 7.4,  but being you have the enablers up to 7.1 that would be my
first upgrade.  Let things settle down and then upgrade again, which
would be a breeze to do.  We are on 7.3.3 right now and don't have any
immediate plans to go to 7.4.  

Changing to a new host will require a transfer with the host ID in UNIX
it's just hostID and enter will provide you that.  In windows I assume
it's the Mac address off the nic?  So you could just pull the old NIC
and put in the new server. Transferring the host is pretty easy to do
within EMC's powerlink if that is [and should be] available to you.  

Plan on keeping the old servers name and IP if possible, it is much
easier to retain the indexes that way. 






-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Steve Harris
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:12 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Upgrading Networker & moving to a new server

Morning all,

We are running Networker Server version 6.x on an old, but maintained, 
server and now wish to move to new hardware and upgrade to Networker
7.4.

I am thinking we need to upgrade to 7.4 on the old server before
transferring to the new hardware, but have a few questions:

  . should we be able to get an enabler to go straight from 6.x to 7.4
    or is it advisable to go through stages. (We have been on
maintenance
    throughout but currently only have the enablers to 7.1)

  . I have read somewhere that do not need an enabler to move to new
    server hardware if you are maintaining the same hostname and IP
    address, is this the case?

  . Is it possible to restore the client indexes if the server
    architecture is changing, or do the tapes need to be re-scanned
    using scanner?
    (We have successfully tested recovery of the media data from a
    backup created using 'savegrp -O')

Please no flaming about running a old versions of Networker. One has 
to fix the broken before getting to fix the working but old!

Many thanks for any advice

Steve

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