On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 02:06:54PM -0700, Kevin Freels wrote: > We are attempting a migration from NB 4.5FP6 on Solaris 5.8 to NB 6.0 on > RHEL4 Linux. The big thing, of course, is the catalog migration. Has > anyone had experience with this? > > Speaking with VeritaSymantec, they say that I need to upgrade the > Solaris server to 5.x and start with the Linux server at 5.x. Then they > will perform the migration of the catalog (for a fee, of course, since > it's not "supported" by Veritas), and then we upgrade to 6.0 on the > Linux box. And nevermind about the system name change. > > I find it a little odd (but not completely unexpected) that "they do not > support the migration of the catalog"; surely, we are not the first to > make such a change. Yet they can perform the migration themselves. I've > a feeling that they have a tool for this not available to the general > public, and that it's probably a lot easier than they let on. > > So, has anyone made this type of migration without Veritas' help, and, > if so, how did you do it? I'm not looking forward to doing imports on a > thousand tapes.....
Back in 3.4, we did a migration from a Windows master server to a Solaris master. Not for the faint at heart! We had no Veritas assistance. We changed host names along the way. Yes, it was ugly, and it did take us a couple of attempts before we got it right. It should be a lot easier from Solaris to Linux since at least your end-of-line characters are the same. If I was to tackle your problem, I'd take the Solaris server to NBU 6 and then copy everything to Linux, keeping the same host name. Do not change the host name - make that a separate project. My guess is that the migration isn't going to be all that bad... .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu