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Disaster recovery file from UNIX to Windows?

Updated: 22 May 2010 | 6 comments
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Am I supposed to be able to send a (6.5.3 online catalog backup) disaster recovery file from a UNIX server to a Windows server? If yes, then I'll ask my Windows admins for help. If no, then I'll choose a different method. Thanks!

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2009
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Are you asking if you can put the Catalog DR file onto a Windows host if your master server is a Unix host?  If the Windows host has NFS on it, then the Unix master server could act as a NFS client and mount that share and then write the file to it.  Similarly if you have a CIFS share on the Windows host, and the master has the Samba client on it, you could then mount the CIFS share to Unix and write your file out.

 

Another option would be to email it to an email account that could store it on your mail server.

 

That is if I understand your question.

 

Regards,

 

Benjamin Schmaus

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I would talk to support. My first response is NO.

 

there is a big difference between windows and Unix.

 

when I went from a windows master to a Unix master I HAD to hire Symantec consulting to convert my catalog.

 

 

I don't have to know how to spell....I work on Unix.
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choose a different method

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Cross-platform migration is only supported by consulting.

http://support.veritas.com/docs/267137

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Right -- 6.5 is new to me, and while configuring the online catalog backup on my Solaris server, I wondered how many assumptions were behind the "Disaster Recovery" tab's suggestion that I send the file to a Windows server.

 

Thanks to everybody who replied with such excellent suggestions.

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Sorry, I misunderstood the initial question, I thought it had to do with migration.

You may have problems writing to Windows shares from Unix - choose a different method.