I have in the past changed the master server name in
both Windows and UNIX environments, on NBU 5.x. Just
do a cold catalog backup and restore it using
bprecover's -dhost option, worked all the time.
MK
--- Curtis Preston <cpreston AT glasshouse DOT com> wrote:
> I said it was a try. ;) My idea was to start a
> discussion, not solve
> the problem in one email.
>
> I think your comment is confusing two issues:
> * Moving from Unix -> Windows
> * Changing the name of the master server
>
> They are two very different problems. Try to do
> them both at once, and
> you'll have a mess. In my message, I was only
> trying to do the former,
> not the latter. The latter is also an oft-discussed
> issue, but there's
> an unsupported doc from Symantec about how to do it.
> I think there
> should be an unsupported doc on how to deal with
> this issue. It's been
> done. It's been done hundreds of times. Let's
> document it already and
> get it out there.
>
> As to "if you have to ask, then you don't have the
> skill," I understand
> what you're saying, but I don't agree with it. I'd
> say "if you don't
> understand the process, then don't try it." Or "If
> you haven't tested
> the process every way back and forth, then don't do
> it." Or "Don't you
> dare use the new server until you've verified that
> everything made it
> over."
>
> As I said in another post, it's all about those line
> feeds, and in some
> cases the endian issue. If you know what to do
> when, you could do it.
> All I'm trying to see is if we can get someone to
> talk about what they
> did when to see if we can get this sucker
> documented.
>
>
> ---
> W. Curtis Preston
> Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
> VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 6:01 PM
> To: Curtis Preston
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Converting catalog form
> Solaris to Windows
> 2003
>
> Nice try, but I hope nobody follows the template
> below. Having been
> heavily
> involved in a Windows to Solaris migration back in
> 3.4, I can tell you
> it's
> a lot more complicated than this. If you have to
> ask for how to do this
> migration, honestly, you don't have the skills to
> complete it.
>
> The short answer is to get professional help. If
> you don't know what
> you're
> doing, you'll corrupt the works, lose backups as you
> revert, and
> generally
> create a huge mess for yourself. You've got both
> the image catalog and
> the
> volume database to deal with. You can't do one
> without the other.
>
> Along with the fun stuff that Curtis documented
> below, you'll run into
> files
> that are over 2GB that unix2dos won't handle, and
> internal references to
> the
> master server name. It's non-trivial and you'll
> watch NBU break in
> weird
> and wonderful ways when you try.
>
> When we did a *media server* rename with a Level 3
> person on site (and
> this
> was on 6.0MP4), it still took us several hours and a
> call to engineering
> before we gave up and left it the old name.
>
> .../Ed
> --
> Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
> mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
> I GoodSearch for Bundles Of Love:
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-
> > bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
> Curtis Preston
> > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 1:47 PM
> > To: Akker Henk van den;
> veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Converting catalog form
> Solaris to Windows
> > 2003
> >
> > Back to the original question. I think the
> databases (Sybase/emm, etc)
> > would restore just fine, but the text files would
> have a problem. So
> > what if you just fixed the text files?
> >
> > Although it's unsupported, I'm thinking that it's
> like the scenario
> > below. (Test and try at your own risk. I'm
> typing from memory/ideas,
> > not testing.)
> >
> > 1. Load NBU software on the new master
> > 2. Load Unix utilities on the Windows server
> (you're going to want
> them
> > anyway)
> > 3. Recover the database (don't start the daemons
> yet)
> > 4. Run a script like the following
> >
> > cd <openv>
> > find . -print |xargs file |grep text |awk -F:
> '{print $1}'|while read
> i
> > do
> > unix2dos $i >$$.$i
> > mv $$.$i $i
> > done
> >
> > Again, try at your own risk.
> >
> > ---
> > W. Curtis Preston
> > Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
> > VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies
>
>
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