Hi Ed,

The server hostnames are being kept the same on the new servers to alleviate
that problem. The plan is simply to build the new solution and swap over the
network cables.

Cheers,

Steve.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
Sent: 30 March 2004 13:34
To: Steven Jenner
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading Netbackup from V3.4.1 to V4.5


On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 12:20:04PM +0100, Steven Jenner wrote:
> These servers will be using Veritas Datacentre v4.5.
> 
> Proposed way forward
> 
> 1.    Upgrade current solution to v4.5 and run a catalog backup against
> it.
> 
> 2.    Connect up new solution and restore the catalogs to the new server
> using the bprecover command.
> 
> By carrying out the two steps shown above I believe we would load all of
the
> necessary catalog information onto the new solution which would then
enable
> us to decommission the old kit. 

If the new servers have different names than the old servers, you've got
a lot more work to do, and that includes the media servers which hold
the volume database.  Changing the name of the master server is
officially unsupported although a lot of people have done it.  We've
even done changing from Windows to Solaris but it was a *lot* of work
and definitely not for the faint of heart.

Don't forget about simple things like changing the server names in all
your bp.conf files...

Good luck,
        .../Ed
-- 
Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org