I think you brought up all of the concerns I'm dealing with; all those 
"thingies" windows needs.  A Full backup and restore of the system/boot drive 
and a catalog recover is probably going to be my safest bet.  Just let 
NetBackup do what it's supposed to do.

Thanks,
Randy


-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Bahnmiller [mailto:bryan.bahnmiller AT managedmail DOT com] 
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 11:11 AM
To: Randy Samora
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Replacing Physical Server Hardware for Windows Master

Randy,

   Are you going to recover the master itself? Or somehow clone its boot 
drive to the new server? Windows need to have all of its thingies it 
needs, like the registry entries and miscellaneous dll's that get 
installed in the Windows directories.

   So, either you somehow copy the old boot drive to the new boot drive 
(I'm assuming that's not E:) or you bring it up with E: and then install 
and patch NetBackup to your previous version level. I have actually done 
that before and it does work, provided the name, dns, ip of the server 
stays the same.

     Bryan

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Bryan Bahnmiller
972-446-5235
bryan.bahnmiller AT managedmail DOT com

Randy Samora wrote:
> I'm about to try something that I seem to recall accomplishing before years 
> ago but I drank a lot back then and I may possibly be experiencing the 
> geekiest form of déjà vu imaginable.  So I thought I'd bounce the idea off of 
> you and maybe someone can verify that this is going to work.
> 
> My Master server (6.0 MP5) is a Windows 2003 server.  NetBackup is installed 
> on E: which is a SAN drive.  My thoughts are to shut down the old Master, 
> bring up the new Master, same name, IP address, home phone number, the works. 
>  When the new server is up, I present the NetBackup LUN from the old server 
> to the new server.
> 
> That sounds too easy and I'm wondering if I should do an on top install of 
> NetBackup after the new server comes back up or are ALL of the NetBackup 
> files installed in the NetBackup installation folder?  Has anyone ever tried 
> this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Randy
> 
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