I also followed this path - same name/same IP.
The old server was left on the network while the hot catalog ran. When that
finished, I removed the old master from the network, plugged in the new master,
restored the catalog and away we went.
In reality, it was fairly painless.
I heard a lot of
What we did was to simply build a new master with new name/IP and continue to
run the old master along side it allowing natural aging of policies/recalls
from offsite storage for vaulting for 3-4 months then we shutdown the old
server. This means for any older backups we'd want to restore we'd
