Brian
What I done was migrate the Netbackup Clients over to a newly created
Netbackup Master Server. The old one was still in production (Netbackup 3.4)
at the time and the new Master uses the Robotic Library. Clients were set to
allow the new Server to perform backups after client upgrades carried out.
Although the old box is still available (purely for any restores past 6
months), it will soon be shutdown as the new Master has been up and running
for 6 months itself on a new Win2k3 Server 5.1 MP3
Worked for us ! And worse case, I could always import the old tapes if I
really, really had to! (So far no restores have been asked for on the legacy
kit)
Another option I also done was a few years back, upgrade an old NT Server to
a FASTER box - I built the Server with the same spec as the old, same name,
IP address, ect
The migration method was only available from NBU 4.5 onwards from what I
recall...
Simon Weaver
Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator
EADS Astrium
Tel: 02392-708598
Email: Simon.Weaver AT Astrium.eads DOT net
-----Original Message-----
From: Horn, Brian [mailto:BrianHorn AT creighton DOT edu]
Sent: 13 March 2006 16:20
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Migrating NBU Enterprise from Unix to Windows
We have Netbackup Enterprise. Master server is an old, nearly
end-of-supported-life Unix machine. We also have a newer Windows media
server. Currently, all the tape drives are connected to the Windows media
server, and nothing to the Master. [Master and media servers both at 5.1MP4]
I'd like to migrate -everything- to a brand spanking new Windows box. [At
6.0MP1] It looks like bprecover with the -dhost won't work for my needs
since as I read it, it won't move the Unix image to Windows. The Veritas
docs I've found so far indicate that we either need to contract services
with them for the migration, or do a clean break from the past and import
any images that may be needed later for restores. Is there a 3rd option?
Would a standalone drive mounted to the old Master server work for restores?
Thank you.
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