The only problem I had with SSO on Linux with 5.1MP3 was adding tape
drives that were in use by other hosts.   Other than that, it's
working fine on our spectra 64k with AIT-2 (eeep).  I'm upgrading to
LTO-3 real soon now.  That's why I'm moving to Linux - for the speed
and massive storage for dssu's for staging  and restores.  The master
is still an ancient, slow e450 at the moment.  I've replaced four of
our 420R's with two linux servers and I'm real happy so far.

On 11/30/05, Jeff Lightner <jlightner AT water DOT com> wrote:
> I don't have answers to what you wrote but did want to caution you about
> using RH for your master.  I've not been able to get RH EL AS 3 to
> properly recognize my SAN environment.   From an earlier thread on this
> list it appears I wasn't the only one.
>
> Not sure if you're running SAN or direct SCSI but if the former thought
> it best to mention it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Dan Dobbs
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 1:21 PM
> To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] yes sir, obviously insane (6.0 upgrade question)
>
> Greetings, list.
>
> Here's my situation. I have a HP-UX media/master server on 5.1 with a
> newer Neo SDLT bot and an ancient DLT4000 Surestore bot. We're going to
> be getting a shiny new Red Hat box soon to take over migrate backup
> services.
>
> I've just read the upgrade docs for 6.0, and I have to say that I'm a
> little overwhelmed. If I read it right, an upgrade to 6 requires all the
> clients to get the security software installed and upgraded to 6 as well
> before they can get backed up, something I'm not sure I can accomplish
> in a day.
>
> In short, I'm considering leaving my HP-UX box at 5.1, and building the
> new RH box on 6. My plan was to remove the Neo SDLT juke out of the 5.1
> environment, plug it into my RH box,and import tapes there (as we've
> used less than 30 SDLT's, it shouldn't be a huge deal). This would allow
> me to do the icky client-side upgrades piecemeal, as I moved them to
> 6.0, they would then back up to the new box. Eventually, as all the
> clients moved over, I could then move the old jukebox and stop
> operations on the HP-UX box.
>
> The obvious problem is recovery; until I import every single tape, I
> wouldn't know what tapes had backups from the 'old' system.
>
> I guess the thrust of the matter is:
>
> 1) Is the upgrade of an in-place 5.1 server to 6 easier than it reads
> on paper?
> 1a) Do I really have to upgrade my clients to 6 before the server will
> talk to them?
> 2) If I was running 6 on the 'old' system, could I follow the previous
> advice, and move /usr/openv/netbackup/db and
> /usr/openv/volmgr/database, run the proper vmglob and bpmedia commands
> on the new box and be done?
>
> Thanks again for all your help!
>
> -dd
>
>
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