Upgrade from WIN SERVER 2000 to SERVER 2003/2008

[Rahul_Arora1]

Hi All,

Please help me on the issue that, upgrading the OS from 2000 to 2003/2008 will affect the NBU application. Do i need to re-install NBU or there will be  no need of it.

& the effect of new OS installation as well.

[Andy_Welburn]

Master, Media or Client?

Change in "bit"? (32/64)

[Rahul_Arora1]

Master & Media............. no change in bit

[Manu_Sharma]

NBU 6.5.1 doesn't support Windows 2008 so the upgrade is un-necessary, though if you plan to wait till Symantec releases its newer version, it would.

[Rahul_Arora1]

We are currently using NBU 5.1 & will continue with the same. Please suggest.

[Mouse]

First of all Windows 2008 is not supported in NBU 5.x
Second, NBU 5.x itself is not supported anymore.

The only way to have supported configuration is to perform the upgrade on current server to 6.x branch and if target server is windows 2008 you have to upgrade current system to minimum patch level 6.5.4.

After that you can backup/restore the catalog database on a new server with new OS.

In theory it is possible to migrate current 5.x to windows 2003, it will work, but as I mentioned above 5.x branch is not supported.