Consider this a posting then Ed. =)
Did several Windows 2003 to Solaris 10 migrations at my old employer of huge
(1+ TB) NetBackup 6.5.x Masters, including keeping the catalog info and
changing the hostnames. Spent a few weeks with rsync copying stuff from the
Windows Master to a new Solaris server, then transferred the EMM database and
the rest of the required files over the day-of.
It's complex, and you'd better do everything in the right order, but it's
possible. If you can't do it yourself now, frankly I'd recommend paying
Symantec Consulting the $20k to do your first one for you and taking notes the
entire time. =) Then you can see whether you want to do subsequent migrations
yourself or keep paying.
Our notes write-up of our first migration ran about 7 pages.
Oh, and NB 6.5 doesn't care about the image files anymore as far as the old ^M
problem goes, it'll read them just fine post-transfer; the only ../db/images/
files you have to convert are the STREAMS files. Other normal config files
outside of ../db/images/ still have to be converted of course. And yes, that
was straight from the Consulting guy and it proved out in test restores.
Good luck !
- John Nardello
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu on behalf of Ed Wilts
Sent: Wed 4/28/2010 11:01 AM
To: ulises.rodrig...@wallst.com
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Migration.
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:13 PM, <judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com> wrote:
You want to go from a windows master to a Unix master...... ho boy!
Been there.... Done that.....
As have we - were successful back on NBU 3.4 going from Windows to Solaris. We
changed host names while we were at it.
If you want to bring your database with you, then yes, you will need to
use Symantec services to do the migration... otherwise they will not support
you... or so they told me.
If you are able to successfully complete your upgrade, Symantec will support
you after that. What they can't do is support you during the migration itself
because there are a LOT of ways it can (and will) go wrong and these breakages
are typically going to be well beyond 1st or 2nd level tech support.
This is a very complex migration and I don't recall seeing any postings from
anybody who has completed a cross-platform migration since NBU 6.x was released
(which introduced EMM).
Unless you have a very strong technical ability to hack binary files and a
fairly good knowledge of NetBackup internals, I would recommend that you not do
this without paying for Symantec (or 3rd party) professional services. It's
doable but it's HARD.
.../Ed
Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE
ewi...@ewilts.org
Linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts>
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