Roger> Has anyone out there engaged Veritas Professional Services to
Roger> migrate from Legato Networker to Veritas Netbackup?

We did.  It was a joke.  

Roger> I'm curious to know if there are tools or procedures for this
Roger> migration, or is a "cut bait and run" situation. Meaning, do
Roger> you just start new with Netbackup (creating policies to
Roger> replicate Legato group functionality) and keep both
Roger> environments around until the Legato tapes recycle themselves
Roger> away?

Just start up a new installation and go.  You can't bring over any
data/tapes or anything with you.  You need to keep the old Legato
setup intact for restores of legacy data.

But why are you switching?  I've used both now and I really prefer
Legato.  It's more flexible, gives better feedback on what's happening
with current backups, and just worked better for me.  I really dislike
NetBackup and how hard it is to get useful information out of it.  

And with the problems we're having restoring NDMP backups from our
NetApps this week, I'm even more upset with Veritas.

John
   John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies
         stoffel AT lucent DOT com - http://www.lucent.com - 978-952-7548