Migrating Server - Catalog and Policy questions

[GWatson]

Hoping you guys can help or point me in the right direction.

I am migrating my Netbackup server to a new server. It will be same version (5.1MP3) and same operating system (2003 server).

I understand because of the Catalog that the server will need to have the same name, is this correct, if so that's a bit of a pain but understandable.

Is there a prooved method to export and then import both the Catalog and the policies. Don't really want to have to create 40 jobs manaully again. I found lots of postings with regards to moving catalog from Windows to Solaris but that's no use.

If I do create the jobs manually, as long as I give them exactly the same name will everything be okay in terms of the Catalog etc. I have a few funnied with a couple of the policies so I'd like to recreate them from scratch, but still wanna be able to restore from previous jobs.

Thanks in advance

Graeme

 

[Stumpr]

Please save yourself future problems and keep the master server the same name. That is my suggestion. Changing the master server name should only be done in a disaster recovery situation where you may be forced to or in a lab environment where you really don't care if the data is lost.

You can backup the netbackup folders (minus the catalog folders)as a regular backup. Also backup the catalogs with the catalog backup utility. On your base )S system do a bprecover. Finally restore the other NetBackup folders (like policies) via bprestore

Bob Stump
Just because the VERITAS documentation states a certain thing does not make it a fact and thats the truth