Migrating Clients from EMC Net worker Server to NBU

[MABaig]

Hi,

Got a query on a issue I am facing.

I am migrating clients with same policy schedules from EMC Networker to NBU Master.

Is there any way to migrate policies from Networker to NBU through cmd line, because through GUI I need to manually fill all the attributes.

or is there any way to create bunch of policies with same attributes through cmd line or GUI. I am doing this through copy to new option in GUI and it is cearting only one policy at atime.

Thanks,

Abaig.

[Yogesh9881]

query of your answer is NO.... you can't migrate networker client to NetBackup that way.

You need to create new policy in NBU.

[Marianne]

There is NO interaction or migration between different backup products.

It is unfortunately 'start from scratch'.... Not possible to migrate or import backup images either...

Welcome to this community! I hope that we will be able to assist you with queries/issues/etc.

You may want to have a look at 'Handy Links' in my signature. As a start, download all the manuals for your NBU version.

Good luck!

[MABaig]

Thank you Marianne.

Is there any way to create bunch of policies with same attributes through cmd line or GUI. I am doing this through copy to new option in GUI and it is cearting only one policy at atime.

For Example Most of the policies have same schedule for backup and I can duplicate that single policy multiple times and can add clients and paths respectively.

[mph999 · Accepted solution]

Let us be very clear - you cannot migrate from one product to the other.

"or is there any way to create bunch of policies with same attributes through cmd line or GUI. I am doing this through copy to new option in GUI and it is cearting only one policy at atime."

You could do this ... copy an existing policy

Here are my policies

root@womble scripts $ bppllist

catback

flash_sp1

raw_test

womble_advanced_sp1

womble_basic_disk

womble_log

womble_rob_0

Run this command 

root@womble admincmd $ bppolicynew new_policy -sameas womble_basic_disk

... and we see a new policy appear that is a copy of 'womble_basic_disk'

root@womble admincmd $ bppllist

catback

flash_sp1

new_policy

raw_test

womble_advanced_sp1

womble_basic_disk

womble_log

womble_rob_0

you could run a script like this (if unix)

for i in newpol_1 newpol_2 newpol_3 newpol_4 newpol_5

do

bppolicynew $i -sameas womble_basic_disk

done

This resulted in ...

root@womble scripts $ bppllist

catback

flash_sp1

new_policy

newpol_1

newpol_2

newpol_3

newpol_4

newpol_5

raw_test

womble_advanced_sp1

womble_basic_disk

womble_log

womble_rob_0

So yes, you can duplicate policies easily.

Martin

[Andy_Welburn]

Just create your initial policy in the GUI & treat it as a template.

<right-click> Copy to New Policy...

then 'fill in the blanks' as it were.

Additionally, for a little later refinement if needed, you can also copy clients, schedules & backup selections from one policy to another with the 'standard' copy'n'paste