migration to appliance
Hi,
Hope you all doing well.
We have an old solution netbackup master 7.7.3 on solaris sparc server with 4 medias.
The new solution installed is a netbackup appliance 5250, netbackup version is 9.0.
The customer asks if it is possible to migrate a part of backups to the new solution (appliance) and keep the rest with the old one.
In this case, what will be the workaround?
Thank you in advance for your clarifications.
Hi Riadh_R17
Firstly the catalog migration from your existing master to the appliance a complex task typically which can only be done by Veritas consulting (although StoneRam-Simon may also have a method).
As for the remainder of your questions:
- Yes you could run both masters at once (although it would not be recommended and could get confusing).
- If you have migrated the catalog, then why do you need the old master running anymore?
- What is your intention for the old media servers - a media server can only be attached to one master server?
- Using hosts files instead of DNS for this purpose again would work, but I can see challenges around making sure the hosts file on a particular server is using the correct entries.
What is your actual goal - why do you want to keep the old master server running? Will you be upgrading this to a supported NetBackup version? If you do a complete catalog migration, there should be no reason to keep the old master running (and the existing media servers can be moved to the new master as part of the migration).
David