08-17-2017 07:33 AM
Is it supported to perform a catalog recovery from an Appliance based catalog backup to a new own build master? Assumng I use the same mount-point folder names, then I can't see what would stop this from being a supported customer side action.
My thinking was that a catalog backup is a catalog backup, and that it if stick to same OS family/type as the Appliance, then I should be able to.
From: Master/Media 5230, four shelves, v2.7.3, on RHEL 6.6
To: Master (VM on Hyper-V 2012 R2), v7.7.3, on RHEL 6.5
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Any detractors, gotchas, warnings, lessons?
08-17-2017 07:36 AM
Linux to Linux shouldn't be a problem.
So Appliance to Linux will work. Just keep the Master name the same.
08-17-2017 08:04 AM
08-17-2017 08:13 AM
Thanks @eduncan - yes name will remain same.
Marianne - thank you as ever, great point as usual... my thinking is that want to keep the original 5230 as pristine as possible as my roll-back point (I will get networks team to permanently down/down the LAN switch NICs) (but leave IPMI) at the appropriate time... so... now I can't help but ask whether you know that I should remove the defunct (after all backups have expired) MSDP disk pool and storage server entries because if I don't then my restored master on a VM will be unusable? I mean, I was going to remove the defunct storage unit and disk pool and storage server after the catalog recovery.
08-17-2017 11:43 AM
08-17-2017 11:56 AM
Yup - am definitely intending to do the whole thing in a lab first - to build the work plan for production.