NBU 7.1 Catalog Restore
Firstly:
I recently took a catalog backup of NBU 7.1 on the Master server onto disk. The previous installation had Server 2003 32 bit and I reinstalled Server 2008 64 bit on the new server. I i...
All the Media server config info is included in the Master's EMM database and is therefore included in the catalog backup.
If the catalog backup was done to disk on the Master server, there is no need for the media server to be online. No harm if it is online, just restart services after catalog backup is done.
You will have to verify device config after the restore - during the OS upgrade/migration the device addresses might have changed. You will probably have to delete the devices and rescan.Do not run the device config wizard after installation.
Hopefully you have the dr-file info that is emailed at the end of the catalog backup? The email contains detailed info of catalog recovery steps.
