On Friday 18 June 2010 05:46:18 WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote:
> If you are going to new Hardware, then is your NBU7 going to be "migrated"
> over to a new System, so you have new Servername, IP address, clients
> pointing to new Master Server, ect?

Argh right. I better use the proper terms :)   No, I'm not "migrating".

> If you were looking at retaining "everything" as it is, and also moving to
> new hardware, then I would suggest ensuring you have a good clean backup
> image of your Master Server and OS "as is" and then do the Enterprise
> upgrade.

Yes, this is what I'll do.

> But as you state; Your looking at moving to win2k8, you could I guess:
> 
> 1) Backup Master "as is"
> 2) Upgrade to Win2k3 Ent
> 3) Get new hardware installed (When it arrives)
> 4) Install Win2k3 Ent and then install NetBackup Master + MP + Tape drives
> / robots + Drivers and do a Hot Catalog recovery 5) Upgrade to Win2k8 !


 This is what I had in mind before realizing this issue about me having the 
"Standard" vs the required "Enterprise".


1) Backup Master Server "as is" running 6.5.3 on Win2K3 SP1
2) Upgrade NBU to 7 on current master server (as Win2k3 SP1 is supported for 
NBU7)
3) Install Win2008 R2 fresh on a new hardware
4) Install NBU 7 on new machine (same ip, same hostname)
5) export catalog from old server into new server (they're both NBU 7)

In theory this should work.  I'd rather upgrade NBU on Win2K3 so I  can have 
NBU 7 and then perfrom fresh Win2008-R2 installation. I don't like the idea of 
upgrading the OS (from Win2003 to Win2008). 

I'll then do the upgrade to Enterprise before starting all of this (of course 
after backing whole system) just in order to be totally compliant.

If you see a big no-no on my 5 steps please let me know.

Thanks for your advice.  I really appreciate it.

Best regards,
Jorge
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