Any Possibility of Catalog restore from lower version to upper?

[Zahid_Haseeb]

Environment

Netbackup Server version = 6.5.5

OS = win2003

Want to do

Is there any possibility if i have Netbackup Catalog 6.5.5 backup and want to restore it on newly installed Netbackup version 7.1 a OS win2008?

[Marianne]

Nope. EMM database can only be restored to same version master server. Same version includes patch level.

Trust me !  I have tried it , thinking we need to get server up and running ASAP and worry about patches later. Restore failed.

You will possibly be able to do a 'partial' recovery (images only).  That will create out-of-sync databases. Images database will know about images on media, but EMM will list tapes as unassigned and will be overwritten by new backups. You will only know this when that URGENT restore is needed...

Partial recovery  is only recommended in a DR situation where you need to restore only and no new backups will be attempted.

[Zahid_Haseeb]

Marianne kindly give me a favour. Do you have any TN which clearly stats that this activity is not possible.

[Marianne]

The following can be found in all versions of the NBU Troubleshooting Guide:

Note: Symantec does not support the recovery of a catalog image that was
backed up using an earlier version of NetBackup.

NBU7 Manuals: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH126327

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH77447

also stresses the fact the the NBU version on the new server MUST be the same.

The restore to a different version simply doesn't work - it fails with an error saying that the version is different...