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nbustarter380
Level 6
13 years ago

How to move policies from one master server to another keeping everything the same.

Hello, 

I know there has to be a way to do this but need some help with the commands or link to the command (I tried searching the community but no success if someone can find a thread about this and display the link that would be nice also.

I would like to move some policies from one master nbuserver to another master nbuserver keeping the attributes, schedules, basically everything the same.

 

Example:  master nbuserver1 (linux) has the following policy

Abalone.ma.com

Move that policy to master nbuserver2 (linux)

 Fyi –  I would like to use the command line for this.

 All masters are Linux

 

Thanks for any help in advance!

 

 

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  • Omar_Villa's avatar
    Omar_Villa
    13 years ago

    Not sure what are you doing but if is just a simple policy migration you can just copy the /usr/openv/netbackup/db/class folder with scp from one box to another and that will make all the policies available on the destination master, but if you are migrating the all thing is a different beast, check this technote about servers tech refresh.

     

    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH77448

     

    Regards.

  • Omar_Villa's avatar
    Omar_Villa
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    Not sure what are you doing but if is just a simple policy migration you can just copy the /usr/openv/netbackup/db/class folder with scp from one box to another and that will make all the policies available on the destination master, but if you are migrating the all thing is a different beast, check this technote about servers tech refresh.

     

    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH77448

     

    Regards.

  • revarooo's avatar
    revarooo
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    If the Netbackup servers are the SAME version of NetBackup and are the SAME OS:

     

    On nbuserver1:

    II am assuming this is a Unix/Linux OS.

    cd /usr/openv/netbackup/db/class

    tar cvf Abalone.ma.com /tmp/Abalone.ma.com.tar

    rcp /tmp/Abalone.ma.com.tar nbuserver2:/tmp/

     

    On nbuserver2:

    cd /usr/openv/netbackup/db/class

    (ensure the directory Abalone.ma.com does not exist here)

    tar xvf /tmp/Abalone.ma.com.tar

     

     

  • Nicolai's avatar
    Nicolai
    Moderator
    13 years ago

    go to /usr/openv/netbackup/db/class

    A directory will exist for every policy configured - Copy the entire structure including permission to the new master server. 

    This will ensure the policy structure is the same. But the new server will likely run a new full backup of everything.

    update: * bump * 3 replies already ...

  • nbustarter380's avatar
    nbustarter380
    Level 6
    13 years ago

     Hi  

    Thanks, yogesh9881, Omar, revaroo and Nicolia

     Thanks for your replies

     Both masters  servers are NBU version 7.1  (not sure iof the patch level)

      [~]# uname -a

    Linux nbuserver. 2.6.18-274.7.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Oct 17 11:57:14 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

    [2.6.18-274.7.1.el5

    [Linux

     Hi revaroo,

     Yes both nubmasters have the same version and the same OS

    Thanks again i appreciate the help!