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Riadh_R17's avatar
Riadh_R17
Level 4
4 years ago

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....
  • davidmoline's avatar
    davidmoline
    4 years ago

    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

quebek's avatar
quebek
Moderator

Hey

What do you mean parts of backup? Current clients? Or already made backups? If second one where backups were written to? Disk or tape? if disk - what kind of storage server was used?

If to tapes - read about importing backup images here 

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100017201#:~:text=NetBackup%20media%20may%20be%20imported,Phase%201%20and%20Phase%202.&text=Creating%20a%20new%20pool%20called,backups%20from%20using%20these%20media.

If it is about to move clients to new NBU domain - it should be easy. Create for these clients policies on new one as these were on old (of course storage units will be different), add in old NBU domain to these client new master/media server into servers for these clients... than I would upgraded the clients and make the newly added master as master ;)

 

Riadh_R17's avatar
Riadh_R17
Level 4
4 years ago

Hi quebek 

Thank you for your answer.

can you explain more clearly these steps ?

If it is about to move clients to new NBU domain - it should be easy. Create for these clients policies on new one as these were on old (of course storage units will be different), add in old NBU domain to these client new master/media server into servers for these clients... than I would upgraded the clients and make the newly added master as master ;)

Thank you in advance

  • quebek's avatar
    quebek
    Moderator
    4 years ago

    Hello

    I am not sure what is unclear there... Please read NetBackup Admin guide part 1 and you should know what to do.

    These are the basics NBU administration tasks. Can you perhaps be more specific?