On Wednesday 14 January 2009, Mesut Mert wrote:
> Hi Keith,
>
> If your nsr is located on EMC storage, simply you can mount your BCV copy
> to the RHEL server to avoid the long outage. We did that and achived to
> transfer 200 GB index database to the target server within 10 minutes SAN
> operation. Hope you have similar facilities.
>
> Moreover your case is not really different platform. There are some
> considerations about licensing, but not much about filesystem. We did
> similar migration from Windows to Unix successfully. At that time migrating
> media database was little bit tricky, not index. Simply we
> exported&imported media database from windows old backup server to solaris
> new backup server.


It still is trickier if the you are migrating between machines with different 
"endian-ness" as from SPARC -> x86. Very much suggest you do it by 
save/restore of the bootstrap. The indexes are saved in XDR format and should 
be OK with just a copy.

Sorry for messing up the (un)logical order in this Q&A, but I hate top-posting 
and couldn't make myself do it this time either ;-)

Best
Dag

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