Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Migrate catalog from Windows to Solaris

2007-02-13 07:41:51
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Migrate catalog from Windows to Solaris
From: jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com (Justin Piszcz)
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:41:51 -0500 (EST)
Wow, yikes..  What about tapes? If I backup data using MPX or not using a 
windows master/media server, I should be able to read it via a 
Solaris/UNIX media/master server correct? I assume this only concerns the 
catalog?

Justin.

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Ed Wilts wrote:

> On 2/13/2007 3:30 AM, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>> As long as you back it up to tape/disk with a catalog backup and then back 
>> again it /should/ be ok as long as the versions are the same etc.?
>
> Not at all!  Recovering a catalog across platforms is not supported and 
> actually will *not* work.  Line terminations are different between the two 
> platforms and you will have unusable files after the recovery.
>
> We did a migration from Windows to Solaris back on 3.4 and it was a major 
> effort with some binary file editing.  This is not for the faint of heart and 
> things have changed a fair bit since we did our migration.
>
> Contact Symantec Professional Services if you really want to do this.
>
>       .../Ed
>
>> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Didier BRUN wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>    Does anyone have already moved a Netbackup 5.1 catalog from a
>>> windows server to a solaris server ?
>
>
> -- 
> Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
> mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org
>