Andy, 

This is actually something that I have personally done about 10 times with
customers, and on my own quite a few times. 

The bprecover command is built to facilitate this sort of thing. Otherwise
our Catalogs would be nearly worthless in a Disaster Recovery situation. 

Do a "bprecover /?" to see the options. 

The "dhost" is a "destination host" parameter that allows you to specify the
NAME of the host you are recovering "TO". Piece of cake. 

Please email me if you are trying this and it is not working. While I may
make a pitch to have VERITAS Consulting come in and help you (hey, I have to
pay the rent right???) I will do what I can to assist. 

Cheers, 

dave

_____ 
dave high
VERITAS Enterprise Consulting
Bay Area Region
702-683-7733
 
"Unix IS user friendly, it is just VERY picky who it chooses as friends" 

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven L. Sesar [mailto:ssesar AT rcn DOT com] 
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 6:25 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring catalogs from tape to different host

On Monday 11 November 2002 02:29 pm, Richardson, Robert wrote:
> Andy,
> I disagree with the statement that it is impossible to restore DB catalogs
> to a
> different host.  I have researched this process, and I believe that I have
> documented
> a pretty concise method for doing such a project.
> I was in the process of doing this myself, without any support from
> Veritas. If Veritas support can do it, then it is possible.
>
> If you are interested I can discuss with you the steps that I came up
with.
>
>
> Robert Richardson
> Activision Studios
> Unix System Engineer
> 310.255.2247

I'm dubious. 

When you say that you've "researched" this, does that mean you've *actually*

restored a master server to a server of a different hostname thatn the 
original master server?

If so, I, personally would love to see it, as this would save a whole lot of

time in the event we need to mobilize our disaster recovery plan.

--Steve


>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> From: "Steven L. Sesar" <ssesar AT rcn DOT com>
> To: andy.skates AT btopenworld DOT com, veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT 
> edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring catalogs from tape to different host
> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 09:16:03 -0500
>
> On Monday 11 November 2002 05:11 am, andy.skates AT btopenworld DOT com wrote:
> > I was always under the impression that you could only restore the Master
> > Server catalogs to a server with the same host name.
> >
> > After a conversation with a Veritas consultant recently, I might have
> > been wrong making that assumption.
> >
> > Does anyone know if it is possible to restore the catalogs, from the
> > catalog backup tape, to a server with a different host name?
> >
> >
> >
> > Andy Skates
> > _______________________________________________
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>
> It's basically impossible to restore catalogs to a server with a different
> hostname. The hostname is deeply embedded in the catalogs.
>
> --steve


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