Hi Kai,

1. correct, no change in the image db since 4.5 up to 6.5
2. i would do a "bpmedia -movedb" afterwards, cause the new master will
always try to connect to the old master server to update the mediaDB.
This would take a while, but you'll get a clean setup then.
 But my proposal would be to make a plain 5.0MP3 installation on the new
server and then copy /opt/openv from the old server to the new one.
Change the bp.conf and run the box. this should work and is probably
faster.

3. exactly

Cheers
Max

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup migration from 5.0 to 6.5,with server
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Hello, very new to the NBU world. This is my first post here.  I need to
migrate/upgrade our existing 5.0MP3 netbackup to 6.5. 

Here is my setup

Old server: Netbackup 5.0MP3 (running on a single linux box) connected
to a SCSI tape library.
New Server: Netbackup 6.5.2 on linux, 1 master, and 1 media server

New servers will have new sernames, from what I have gathered so far
here is the rough plan.

1. install NBU 5.1 on one master and one media server (my understanding
is db/catalogs file are unchanged from 5.0 to 5.1)

2. add the FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER = oldservername newservername to
bp.conf 
*import the master server catalog files from 5.0MP3 to the 5.1 Master
server. then
*import media server catalog files from 5.0MP3 to the 5.1 media server.
Question: since I won't be connecting the tape library to the new media
just yet, should I use recover or import?)

3. Verify it works, then upgrade from 5.1 to 6.5

Are these the correct steps to do the job? Any suggestion?

Thanks

Kai Xie
kai.xie AT globalinsight DOT com

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