Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgradation, Consolidation and then Migration :-Few Questions 5.1 to 6.5, windows 2k to win2k8

2011-02-04 Thread Rusty.Major
One step to make it a bit easier: Instead of upgrading the media server and then migrating media to the master, why don't you migrate the media to the master at version 5.1, decomm that media server and THEN upgrade to 6.5 and 7.0? Less upgrade work with the same result. I have migrated to new

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgradation, Consolidation and then Migration :-Few Questions 5.1 to 6.5, windows 2k to win2k8

2011-01-29 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Pranav Officially, the rule is, same server name and same OS. What I have found in the past is I can move Netbackup to different Windows OS, providing the install path is identical. However, Server name caused the biggest headache. I actually found that migrating from server1 to server2 and

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgradation, Consolidation and then Migration :-Few Questions 5.1 to 6.5, windows 2k to win2k8

2011-01-29 Thread Marianne Van Den Berg
Hi Pranav Your plan will work, EXCEPT for the new hostname. NBU 6.5 Hot Catalog backup can be used to migrate to 64-bit OS, under condition that the hostname stays the same. See this TN: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH77447 Kind regards M. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgradation, Consolidation and then Migration :-Few Questions 5.1 to 6.5, windows 2k to win2k8

2011-01-29 Thread Justin Piszcz
Hi, I agree with Simon, when retention is reasonable, you can keep one system or the old robot/media around if needed. However, if you have a system with many years or decades of retention, then you have the problem of keeping the images around. Justin. On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, WEAVER, Simon

[Veritas-bu] Upgradation, Consolidation and then Migration :-Few Questions 5.1 to 6.5, windows 2k to win2k8

2011-01-28 Thread pranav batra
Hello Geeks, We have one Master Server( NBU 5.1 MP3) + one media server ( NBU 5.1 MP3). Both are on windows 2000 SP4. Now our task is to upgrade master server to 6.5. Upgrade media server to 6.5. Decommison the media server and move all the media to master server. Recover the catalog to