Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Changing Netbackup Master Hardware

2007-02-09 04:19:43
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Changing Netbackup Master Hardware
From: jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com (Justin Piszcz)
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 04:19:43 -0500 (EST)
First off I have never tried moving the files, I don't even know if that 
will work.

To do it properly, you need to take a catalog backup of the old system and 
import it into the new one, this is the only way to ensure everything will 
be OK.

Justin.

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Daniel Goh wrote:

> Hi Justin,
>
> Current Master:
> Hostname: NBUData
> Alias: NBUMaster
>
> New Master:
> Hostname:NBUDB
> Alias: NBUMaster
>
> After copying over the catalogs, I started NBU and everything was ok.
> I am able to see the policies, storage units and backups ran.
> But under the device management, I can't see anything and got the cannot find 
> gdb error.
> Then I tried to set the gdbhost.
> I have tried to run it <tpautoconf -set_gdbhost NBUMaster and got the error 
> that I can't set the gdbhost.
> Something about permission not granted.
> Then I tried to do a tpautoconf -upgrade and was told that the MM Server Name 
> is NBUDB.
> So I  proceeded to change the hostname to NBUMaster and did a reboot.
> After that I still get the same error.
> There is no domain set in this environment.
>
> However I have not yet connected the library unto the new master yet.
> Thus ltid is not able to start. Only vmd is started.
> Do I need to connect up the library to enable ltid?
>
>
>
>> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 04:05:46 -0500> From: jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com> To: 
>> hullo_daniel at hotmail.com> CC: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu> 
>> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing Netbackup Master Hardware> > Run this:> > 
>> /usr/openv/> > or C:\usr\openv> > vmglob -set_gdbhost 
>> master.server.name.com> > Justin.> > On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Daniel Goh wrote:> 
>> > > Hi guys,> >> > Am attempting to change a Netbackup Master's platform.> > 
>> It is from Unix to another flavor of Unix.> >> > Can I just copy the> > 
>> /usr/openv/netbackup/db> > /usr/openv/volmgr/database> > /usr/openv/var> > 
>> from the old server to the new server and expect it to work?> >> > Previous 
>> encounters from others encountered "cannot set gdb host" when trying to set 
>> the gdb host after just copying the catalogs over.> > If the current setup 
>> is a master/media server, can I change the new setup to a master only 
>> server?> > Or is it not possible as the media DB is difficult to change in 
>> this case?> >> > There won't be any change of hostname or IP.> >> > 
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