Migration from Data Protector to Netbackup

[issmag]

Hi,

please, i need to know if there is a possibility to migrate from data protector solution to Netbackup Entreprise ?

Best regards

[StefanosM · Accepted solution]

If you want a marketing answer, yes you can. You can always uninstall data protector and install netbackup.

If you need to migrate your data protector backups to netbackup, netbackup does not have a tool to do that kind of migrations. You have to keep your data protector server for restores of the long term backups.

There was a software company called Butterfly Software. This company developed a software that could migrate one backup format to another. Unfortunately this company acquired from IBM and I do not know if they still do migrations. For sure they keep  migrations to TSM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/22/butterfly_software/

[RiaanBadenhorst]

Hi,

This isn't easy unless you find some 3rd party tool to do it. And that would just cost you even more.

You can just leave your DP server and the tape drives/media in a working state so you can restore if you need to. In most cases, if you're going to be asked to restore the request would be for the most recent data. Once you've installed NBU, it would have the most recent data, so no need to go to the DP backups.

If its a requirement to migrate backups with very long retentions then you could possible restore then using DP (to a temp location), and back them up again using a keyword tag on NBU. This however is a very long process.

[issmag]

hi,

thanks guys for your respons.