Migrate NW from linux to windows

Question

Hi

I'm doing a migrate of NW 7.6.3 server from Linux RHEL to Windows 2008. (after completion I will upgrade to 8.1)

Any special considerations I need to be aware of ?

Can I do a bootstrap recover from linux to windows ?

Can I use the approach described here?: Re: Migrate Networker server to a new hardware and to a new version.

Thanks

Eivind

Lucky85 · Accepted Answer

Hello I did same migration last week, you can copy nsr, mm, and index from linux to windows.

I met these problems:

Nsrd didn’t start when folders were copied, problem was with server naming, you have to add entries to hosts file in correct order!!

Notificatons you have to manually change commands

I had problem to read backups written from linux, because of block size windows driver doesn’t support usually more than 64KB, so you have to use this article for example to solve the problem.

http://solutions.emc.com/emcsolutionview.asp?id=esg92871

I would recommend to don’t use Windows drivers for tapes and use driver from tape vendor…

If you are not sure what you are doing use NetWorker procedure generator

Good luck

Regards

Lukas

eivinda · Answer

Hi Hrvoje

I have installed the new win server and added the NFS driver to it & Installed NW server.

I can mount and write/recover to/from NFS AFTD devices configured on it.

(Will be using CIFS AFTD when complete)

I have only tested with new devices, not existing ones.

So, I should do a bootstrap recover, recreate devices manually, copy or recover indexes ?

Any known issues with recovering/cloning backups created on Linux NFS ATFDs from a Windows NW server ?

Thanks

Eivind

ble1 · Answer

Obviously your resources will have some issues if you copy/restore them since Linux and Windows tend to have different paths.  I would personally stick with Linux, but if you have to go to Windows then I assume you will manually recreate resources and import database (mdb) and copy index db.

eivinda · Answer

Hi LukasGreat, thanks RegardsEivind

Lucky85 · Answer

You are welcome, Don’t forget to delete or rename original nsr mm and index folder to avoid merging. What I forget to mention, you have to delete ane recreate devices of course… Regards Lukas

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