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afzal1's avatar
afzal1
Level 3
3 years ago

NetBackup Appliance

Dear Technical Team,

  kindly advise for my Query please,

   i have NBU appliance 5230 with 14TB of storage, which recently i have across that the support is going to end in jan 2022, now i need to migrate to 5250 appliance, but i have encountered my data will going to increase till 20 TB in 2-3 years of span.

  could you please advise how can i migrate my data to 5250 appliance. please share any doc to follow the steps.

  thanks in advacne.

 

  • davidmoline's avatar
    davidmoline
    3 years ago

    Hi afzal1 

    Have a look at the appliance migration utility:
    https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/75895731-130448786-0/v126471052-130448786

    This should help you migrate the data from the old appliance to the new.

    Basically you need to duplicate the backup you need to from the old appliance tot he new one. If the backup will expire from the old appliance disk pool within 1-2 months, it is probably better to just let them expire naturally. 

    So configure the new appliance into the environment, update you backups and SLPs to use the new appliance. Then duplicate off those images that have a long retention. Once the images have been confirmed as duplicated, you can then expire them from the old appliance. 

    Now if the old appliance is also the master server, then this becomes much more complex and you will probably require specialist help. If this is the case, reach out to your local Veritas account team (or partner team).

    Cheers
    David

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  • davidmoline's avatar
    davidmoline
    Level 6
    3 years ago

    Hi afzal1 

    Have a look at the appliance migration utility:
    https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/75895731-130448786-0/v126471052-130448786

    This should help you migrate the data from the old appliance to the new.

    Basically you need to duplicate the backup you need to from the old appliance tot he new one. If the backup will expire from the old appliance disk pool within 1-2 months, it is probably better to just let them expire naturally. 

    So configure the new appliance into the environment, update you backups and SLPs to use the new appliance. Then duplicate off those images that have a long retention. Once the images have been confirmed as duplicated, you can then expire them from the old appliance. 

    Now if the old appliance is also the master server, then this becomes much more complex and you will probably require specialist help. If this is the case, reach out to your local Veritas account team (or partner team).

    Cheers
    David

    • afzal1's avatar
      afzal1
      Level 3
      3 years ago

      Thank you David, appreciate your advise and value answer.