Tristan,
I have talked to several consultants and they said they have never gotten a
rename to work in version 6.0. Their best bet was to rename the 5.x server
then migrate...and even that was difficult. We tried to rename our master
server when we went to 5.x and never did get it to work. Good luck.
Reneé Carlisle
Sr. Systems Administrator
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Webster, NY 14580
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-----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 Tristan Ball
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 2:45 AM
To: Anthony Tocco; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Server Replacement.
I spoke to Veritas shortly after sending my email to the list, and they report
that in version 6.0, it is supported, but "difficult". The engineer is running
through it in their lab a couple of different ways before giving me the
procedure. I'll send a general description to the list after I get it.
In your suggestion, it sounds like I'd need to have the Shared Storage option
so I could share the LTO library between the two servers?
It would also mean that I have to pay for another another Netbackup server
license, which is something I'm trying to avoid.
T.
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Tocco [mailto:ttocco AT colltech DOT com]
Sent: Friday, 21 April 2006 2:42 PM
To: Tristan Ball; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Server Replacement.
Actually Tristan you should be able to do the following. Ask Veritas about it
then let me know if you will.
Since 6.0 uses and EMM server you can have multiple Masters in the same
environment.
I would build the new Master Server and Media server environment using
the existing EMM server and then migrate your Clients to the new Servers the
only thing is you will keep what aver server is currently running the EMM
server.
During the client transfer you should be able to use the update_client command
to update the BP.conf.
Let me know how it turns out what ever way you do it please.
Tony Tocco
ttocco AT colltech DOT com
-----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 Tristan
Ball
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:00 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Server Replacement.
Does anyone have a suggestion for the following scenario that avoids the
difficulties in renaming a NB Master server?
We're upgrading, our old environment looks like this:
Server 1:
Solaris 8
Samba File Server
Netbackup 6.0mp2 Master Server.
HVD SCSI DLT7000 Library (legacy backups)
FC LTO-3 Library (current Backups).
Our target environment:
All servers are now Blades, ie, they have FC connections, but no SCSI.
Server A (With Server 1's name)
RHEL 4.0
Samba File Server
Server B
RHEL 4.0
Netbackup Master Server
FC LTO-3 Library (current backups)
Server 1 (Under a new name)
Solaris 8
Netbackup Master
SCSI DLT7000 (Legacy Backups only)
I had thought to simply move Netbackup to Server B, Samba to Server A, and
rename Server 1. That would have given me a transparent upgrade for my users, a
separate Backup server (finally), and I could have kept the old server in the
corner for legacy recoveries, which would have also given me a nice reason to
split my netbackup catalog between to servers, and hence speed up current
backup catalg searches.
I've discovered that the only way to do this in a Veritas supported manner, is
to move Netbackup to Server A so the hostname doesn't change, then buy a
SCSI-HVD router ($$) to connect the old library to the new server.
Does anyone have any better ideas? I'm going to talk to Veritas today about
doing the rename, but from the sounds of things, it'ss going to be even more
painfull in Version 6.0 than it was in 4.x and 5.x.
Thanks,
Tristan
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