Verdict is in - multiple sources advise against the process I mentioned. Guess the moral of the story is to stay in a *nix environment...
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 2:34 PM To: David McMullin Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 Migration from Win to HP-UX .On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:55 PM, David McMullin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Regarding moving master server OS: 1. Install the new server OS and NetBackup 2. Stop NetBackup on old environment 3. Cold Catalog Backup 4. Rename old master and new master - so new master has old name 5. Start NetBackup on new master 6. Catalog Restore from Cold Catalog Backup Absolutely NOT. This cross-platform (Windows to Unix) migration WILL NOT WORK. You will have end-of-line termination issues and NetBackup is unlikely to even start up. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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