This might be KB you had in mind:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH77448

On Feb 1, 2013, at 5:12 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <jlight...@water.com> wrote:

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> Back in 2011 I investigated moving from HP-UX to RHEL6 and my research at the 
> time indicated that moving from UNIX to Linux was essentially the same as 
> moving from UNIX to UNIX.   However there was one note that specifically 
> dealt with an extra step if you moved to Linux which I don’t recall the 
> details of now.  I’d say it would be safe so long as you find that note and 
> also keep the same server name for the new master.
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> In the end we didn’t actually migrate because we wanted to have a new host 
> name for our master and Symantec holds you hostage to professional services 
> for that.   I read stories to indicate that people that thought they did the 
> new name thing on their own started having issues months after the migration 
> so it was enough to scare us into not attempting to use a new name.
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> Instead we kept our old master running for some time so it would age out old 
> tapes and what not while we ran a freshly installed master on RHEL6.  We did 
> find we were able to copy policies subdirectories from the old master to the 
> new master.  (You must copy in each policy directory as is – there is 
> apparently some sort of checksum NBU keeps track of that makes manually 
> editing files under each policy directory do bad things.)
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> From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Rusty Major
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 4:51 PM
> To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Migrating Master to Different Hardware Platform
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> Hi all,
> 
> I need to upgrade some Master servers and we currently run Solaris, but are 
> making a push to move to Symantec Appliances for Media Servers. It would be 
> good for consistency's sake to have the equipment match the Media Servers, 
> but I would consider going to RHEL on some other x86 server, too. 
> Moving from Solaris to Solaris is pretty easy:
> -Ready new server
> -Shutdown NBU
> -Copy over /usr/openv (it's not just a straight copy, we actually do a 
> simultaneous tar and copy)
> -Rename new server to old name and old IPs
> -Bring up NBU
> -Move on to the next project
> 
> Does anyone see why this same process wouldn't work, just going to a 
> different platform? I would appreciate hearing thoughts from anyone who has 
> moved from Solaris to Linux, or specifically the appliances.
> 
> Thanks for the input.
> Rusty
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