We're doing something similar here.  We are creating a new backup
infrastructure from the ground up, importing our policies and then
keeping the old environment around for another year to do restores.
This method made a lot more sense to us then trying to upgrade and
re-import.
 
-Jonathan

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Xiao
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 3:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Migration from 4.5 FP3 to 6.0




On 9/7/06, WEAVER, Simon <simon.weaver at astrium.eads.net> wrote: 

        Yang
        Oh dear, oh dear! this is when you start to feel that the
support is not so good :-(
         
        how many tapes are we dealing with?
        

        Phase 1 process takes an hour1, and based on my findings, and
experience, an LTO Phase 2 takes 4 hours, give or take.
         
        Again, if you have a limited set of tapes, I guess its "OK", to
do this and you have the time. also, bear in mind a drive will be in
full use while the import takes place. So unless you have a spare drive
backups will not run correctly and could fail.
         
        Also, there appears to be some concerns about 6.0 and the so
called MP3. If the Support engineer is going to be AT hand , during the
whole process, then its probably worth considering this.
         
        I run 5.1 MP2 and to be honest, its absolutely fine. I am not
saying this is what you should do, but if you have to upgrade, youll
need to go to 5.x and then to 6.0
         
        As for your OS - If symantec say do it, then it must be
supported!
        Hope this is of some help
         
        
         

We are looking at 80-100 tapes, and they are on a 3 week rotation, so
every week when we get them from Iron Mountain, the contains on them are
expiring. 
This makes me think I don' really need to import anything except the
policies, because I just need to keep the tape rotation going and if
something happens, lets say in the first week, I need to restore
something from 2 weeks ago, I will have to reconnect the old backup
server and call back the tapes, and since we have copy 2 and copy 3 of
each backup on disk, I may not even have to bother with the tapes.... 
So in this case, do you think I can just add the tapes to the new server
each week without importing them?

Thanks,

- Yang

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