Jack.Forester wrote:
> I seem to remember reading in the HA guide that going from a non-clustered 
> server to a clustered server is not supported. Doesn't mean it's not 
> possible, though. Marianne's suggestion of building the server as a cluster, 
> then doing a bprecover sounds like it might work. Just make sure you make the 
> cluster name the same as the name of the original standalone. You definitely 
> want to read the HA guide. What clustering software are you using?


You are correct:

>>From the ?Veritas NetBackup? High Availability Administrator?s Guide? 
>>(NetBackup_Administorator_HighAvalability.pdf) document:
 
Page 14: ?NetBackup does not support the conversion of an existing non-failover 
NetBackup server to a failover NetBackup server. Contact Symantec Enterprise 
Technical Support.?

In other words, this requires consulting services.

I guess that's what you get for not reading the first couple of chapters 
because you think they are just a bunch of fluff.

We've tried doing the recovery after configuring it in the cluster.  The 
problem at that point is that NetBackup is not aware that it's in a cluster, 
which causes a big problem with the device configurations.

We are using the latest version of VCS, so it's definitely supported, just 
apparently not with using our old EMM database.  Any ideas on how to remedy 
this situation, or when it will be supported?  I really don't want to have to 
re-inventory or loose 7 years worth of old tapes.

Maybe we can get one of our DBA's to crack open the Sybase Database and find a 
solution to our problem?

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