Need to do P2P migration for Linux

[faiskhan]

Hi,

I want to physical to phsical BMR to new hardware my boot server is RHEL 6.1

Master server:- WIndows 2008 64 , ver-7.6.0.1 and Clients are some RHEL 5 and Some 6

Boot server Netbackup version:- 7.5 and client 7.5

PLease do let me know Is this supported with Netbackup, I looged a case with symantec but they say not supported

But in Symantec Release it was metioned that p2p migration for Linux is supported.

[RiaanBadenhorst]

Those versions are supported. I would just upgrade the clients to match the master, but that should not mean its not supported.

Do you have more details about why its not supported?

[Marianne]

See this TN: 

Methodology for performing Dissimilar System Restore (DSR) for UNIX servers 
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH62678

BMR support is listed in the NBU OS CL: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH76648 

[Jaime_Vazquez · Accepted solution]

Most RHEL OS versions are supported as a BMR Client/Boot Server. However, the action of using BMR as the method to "Clone" to image to new hardware (DSR for Unix/Linux)  is what is not technically supported.

BMR does natively support DSR for Windows clients.  It does not do the same for Unix/Linux clients.  That is why I wrote the article mentioned above. Issues associated with this effort, as a support case, should still have been worked by support engineer. The root cause of the failure may not be related to a true DSR action but for another possible setup or configuration error. 

You need to be a lot more specific as to what RHEL update version you are describing.  Each update level will have its own BMR version requirement.  See this for the OS compatibility. Look at the section for clients and the column in the display for "BMR Client/Boot Server".

NetBackup (tm) 7.x Operating System Compatibility List
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH76648