Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Migration.

[Nardello, John]

Consider this a posting then Ed. =) 
 
Did several Windows 2003 to Solaris 10 migrations at my old employer of huge 
(1+ TB) NetBackup 6.5.x Masters, including keeping the catalog info and 
changing the hostnames. Spent a few weeks with rsync copying stuff from the 
Windows Master to a new Solaris server, then transferred the EMM database and 
the rest of the required files over the day-of. 
 
It's complex, and you'd better do everything in the right order, but it's 
possible. If you can't do it yourself now, frankly I'd recommend paying 
Symantec Consulting the $20k to do your first one for you and taking notes the 
entire time. =) Then you can see whether you want to do subsequent migrations 
yourself or keep paying. 
 
Our notes write-up of our first migration ran about 7 pages.  
 
Oh, and NB 6.5 doesn't care about the image files anymore as far as the old ^M 
problem goes, it'll read them just fine post-transfer; the only ../db/images/ 
files you have to convert are the STREAMS files. Other normal config files 
outside of ../db/images/ still have to be converted of course. And yes, that 
was straight from the Consulting guy and it proved out in test restores. 
 
Good luck !
- John Nardello
 



From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu on behalf of Ed Wilts
Sent: Wed 4/28/2010 11:01 AM
To: ulises.rodrig...@wallst.com
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Migration.


On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:13 PM,  wrote:


You want to go from a windows master to a Unix master.. ho boy!

 Been there Done that.

As have we - were successful back on NBU 3.4 going from Windows to Solaris.  We 
changed host names while we were at it.


If you want to bring your database with you, then yes, you will need to 
use Symantec services to do the migration... otherwise they will not support 
you... or so they told me.

If you are able to successfully complete your upgrade, Symantec will support 
you after that.  What they can't do is support you during the migration itself 
because there are a LOT of ways it can (and will) go wrong and these breakages 
are typically going to be well beyond 1st or 2nd level tech support.

This is a very complex migration and I don't recall seeing any postings from 
anybody who has completed a cross-platform migration since NBU 6.x was released 
(which introduced EMM).

Unless you have a very strong technical ability to hack binary files and a 
fairly good knowledge of NetBackup internals, I would recommend that you not do 
this without paying for Symantec (or 3rd party) professional services.  It's 
doable but it's HARD.

   .../Ed


Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE 
ewi...@ewilts.org

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Read RecMID of expired tapes

[mikemclain]

Shyam,

 

This should work for if you have a Unix master/media server. It will
work on Windows as well, but you'll need to obtain the dd and mt
commands from a 3rd party.

 

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/232409.htm

 

HTH

 

-Mike

 

 

 

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Read RecMID of expired tapes

 

I got a bunch of expired tape and I need to cross check external barcode
and recorded media ID. I tried mounting the tapes using robtest, and did
a vmoprcmd. RecMID field is blank. Is there any other way to read the
RecMID ?

 

TIA

 

-Shyam

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[Veritas-bu] Read RecMID of expired tapes

[Shyam Hazari]

I got a bunch of expired tape and I need to cross check external barcode and
recorded media ID. I tried mounting the tapes using robtest, and did a
vmoprcmd. RecMID field is blank. Is there any other way to read the RecMID ?

TIA

-Shyam
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing backup retention periods

[Brian J. Greenberg]

Mark, 

For a single instance, I agree.  For organizations that are constantly changing 
retention of data and need to keep track of the original expiration dates and 
manage shared data, especially for legal holds, it's an excellent solution.  

Brian J. Greenberg
General System Dynamics LLC
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http://gsysd.com
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On Apr 28, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Donaldson, Mark wrote:

> That's kind of an expensive way to avoid typing one command.
>  
> From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Brian J. 
> Greenberg
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:21 PM
> To: Mark Glazerman
> Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing backup retention periods
>  
> You can also use Data Manager to accomplish this.  It's designed for legal 
> holds but does exactly what you want to do too.
>  
> Brian J. Greenberg
> General System Dynamics LLC
> br...@gsysd.com
> http://gsysd.com
> 312.242.1840
> 
>  
>  
> 
> Follow me on Twitter
> Follow GSD on Twitter
>  
> 
>  
>  
> On Apr 27, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Mark Glazerman wrote:
> 
> 
> We’ve had a request to extend the retention period on backups from one of our 
> hosts so that data needed for some troubleshooting won’t expire before it can 
> be used.
>  
> Currently the retention period for this data is 1 week.  If I change the 
> retention period in the policy that backed up this data to 2 weeks, will this 
> change be applied to both future and past backups handled by this policy ?
>  
> Essentially I’m trying to work out if this change will be applied 
> retro-actively to existing backup images ?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Mark Glazerman
> Enterprise Storage Administrator
> Spartech Corporation
> Desk: 314-889-8282
> Fax: 314-854-8282
> Cell: 618-520-3401
> mark.glazer...@spartech.com
> http://www.spartech.com
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Migration.

[Spencer O'Donnell]

One issue you will have is the image files are not compatible from
Windows to unix and vice versa. So you would have to do a cat_convert on
them all. At least that was a 5.1 issue and still lives today I believe.


 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ulises
Rodriguez
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 1:07 PM
To: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu'
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Migration.

 

Hello All, 

 

I am looking to migrate my windows 2003 32 bit  netbackup master/media
server to Redhat  64 bit enterprise edition. 

 

What I am looking for is for advice what I need to watch out for as far
as the config/migration etc..etc.. 

 

My support contract with a local company suggested to use their
professional services for this migration.

 

Any advice will be appreciated. 

 

Thank you,

 

Ulises Rodriguez.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Migration.

[Ulises Rodriguez]

Yes, I need to bring my database/catalog over to the new server.

Thank you for all your responses.

Ulises Rodriguez


From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewi...@ewilts.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 12:01 PM
To: Ulises Rodriguez
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Migration.

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:13 PM, 
mailto:judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com>> 
wrote:
You want to go from a windows master to a Unix master.. ho boy!
 Been there Done that.
As have we - were successful back on NBU 3.4 going from Windows to Solaris.  We 
changed host names while we were at it.
If you want to bring your database with you, then yes, you will need to use 
Symantec services to do the migration... otherwise they will not support you... 
or so they told me.
If you are able to successfully complete your upgrade, Symantec will support 
you after that.  What they can't do is support you during the migration itself 
because there are a LOT of ways it can (and will) go wrong and these breakages 
are typically going to be well beyond 1st or 2nd level tech support.

This is a very complex migration and I don't recall seeing any postings from 
anybody who has completed a cross-platform migration since NBU 6.x was released 
(which introduced EMM).

Unless you have a very strong technical ability to hack binary files and a 
fairly good knowledge of NetBackup internals, I would recommend that you not do 
this without paying for Symantec (or 3rd party) professional services.  It's 
doable but it's HARD.

   .../Ed
Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE
ewi...@ewilts.org
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Migration.

[Ed Wilts]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:13 PM,  wrote:

>  You want to go from a windows master to a Unix master…… ho boy!
>
>  Been there…. Done that…..
>
As have we - were successful back on NBU 3.4 going from Windows to Solaris.
We changed host names while we were at it.

> If you want to bring your database with you, then yes, you will need to use
> Symantec services to do the migration… otherwise they will not support you…
> or so they told me.
>
If you are able to successfully complete your upgrade, Symantec will support
you after that.  What they can't do is support you during the migration
itself because there are a LOT of ways it can (and will) go wrong and these
breakages are typically going to be well beyond 1st or 2nd level tech
support.

This is a very complex migration and I don't recall seeing any postings from
anybody who has completed a cross-platform migration since NBU 6.x was
released (which introduced EMM).

Unless you have a very strong technical ability to hack binary files and a
fairly good knowledge of NetBackup internals, I would recommend that you not
do this without paying for Symantec (or 3rd party) professional services.
It's doable but it's HARD.

   .../Ed

Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE
ewi...@ewilts.org
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Migration.

[judy_hinchcliffe]

You want to go from a windows master to a Unix master.. ho boy!

Been there Done that.

If you want to bring your database with you, then yes, you will need to use 
Symantec services to do the migration... otherwise they will not support you... 
or so they told me.

I had issues with that... don't know if it was because we were going to AIX, 
but we could not get it to work.  They said they had done this before on Linux.

I ended up.

Keeping my windows master until all tapes expired on it.

I created my new aix master fresh.
Added it to all the clients and made it their master (also added the new media 
servers).
And started doing backups on the new environment (upgraded clients after we had 
it working)

The clients still had the old master name in their server list.
If I had to do  restore, I just did it from the old master/media server.

Once all tapes were expired.  I took down the old windows server.
And any time we were in a client properties, we would remove the old server 
names from the reference.

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ulises Rodriguez
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 12:07 PM
To: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu'
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Migration.

Hello All,

I am looking to migrate my windows 2003 32 bit  netbackup master/media server 
to Redhat  64 bit enterprise edition.

What I am looking for is for advice what I need to watch out for as far as the 
config/migration etc..etc..

My support contract with a local company suggested to use their professional 
services for this migration.

Any advice will be appreciated.

Thank you,

Ulises Rodriguez.
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[Veritas-bu] Netbackup Migration.

[Ulises Rodriguez]

Hello All,

I am looking to migrate my windows 2003 32 bit  netbackup master/media server 
to Redhat  64 bit enterprise edition.

What I am looking for is for advice what I need to watch out for as far as the 
config/migration etc..etc..

My support contract with a local company suggested to use their professional 
services for this migration.

Any advice will be appreciated.

Thank you,

Ulises Rodriguez.
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing backup retention periods

[Donaldson, Mark]

That's kind of an expensive way to avoid typing one command.

 

From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Brian J.
Greenberg
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:21 PM
To: Mark Glazerman
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing backup retention periods

 

You can also use Data Manager
  to accomplish this.
It's designed for legal holds but does exactly what you want to do too.

 

Brian J. Greenberg
General System Dynamics LLC
br...@gsysd.com
http://gsysd.com  
312.242.1840
  

 

 



  

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On Apr 27, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Mark Glazerman wrote:





We've had a request to extend the retention period on backups from one
of our hosts so that data needed for some troubleshooting won't expire
before it can be used.

 

Currently the retention period for this data is 1 week.  If I change the
retention period in the policy that backed up this data to 2 weeks, will
this change be applied to both future and past backups handled by this
policy ?

 

Essentially I'm trying to work out if this change will be applied
retro-actively to existing backup images ?

 

Thanks,

 

Mark Glazerman

Enterprise Storage Administrator

Spartech Corporation

Desk: 314-889-8282

Fax: 314-854-8282

Cell: 618-520-3401

mark.glazer...@spartech.com  

http://www.spartech.com  

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