I think if you search the archives you will find a lot of posts on this
subject.
If what you want to do is clone your server, you must first backup all the
user data on it. It's easy to do with serversetup "Maintain --> Backup
Selective Data"
This creates an entire directory structure, /usr/OV.back.v7r1, with all
your user customization in it. This you tar up and compress in
preparation for ftp'ing it to you new box.
On the new box you install the everything you need except NetView itself
-- the Framework if you are going that route and all the OS maintenance
that you would need for a successful NetView install. Then ftp over and
untar that /usr/OV.back.v7r1 directory structure. Now when you install
NetView specify that you want to use the upgrade path. The installation
scripts will find the data in /usr/OV.back.v7r1 and merge it in with the
new stuff creating a clone of the original box. All your customization
will be preserved. There is no need to use pax in this procedure because
you are restoring the entire directory. pax is only recommend when you
already have done this and now you want to keep the two NetViews in synch
by moving the databases from one to the other. Since the databases have a
sparse directory structure which tar doesn't understand but pax does, it
can save you from requiring more space on the restore than you did on the
original box.
Lot's of folks have used this clone procedure before so I am surprised
that none of them have responded.
It's very straightforward because it is essentially the same procedure you
would use to migrate an old NetView to a new version. The only difference
is that you move the backup directory to a new box instead of an old one.
James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
"Mithun Prakash Prabhu" <Mithun_Prabhu@infosys.com>
02/18/2003 02:02 AM
To: <nv-l@lists.tivoli.com>
cc:
Subject: [nv-l] NV 713 : Server Migration... Help required in
steps involved the
same.
Hello list,
We have a NV 713 existing and running perfectly on a low end SUN server.
All is working fine as far as functionality is concerned. We have got a
new high end SUN server which is configuration wise double the speed and
HDD capacity as the old one is. So we need to migrate the complete working
NV 713 server on to the new server. What is the best practice to do the
same. Is it that we need to backup the NV DB , use tar and then untar it
on to the new server with NV and patches installed( ofcourse with TMF and
MN components on the same) I would like to know the best procedure to do
the same. Somewhere I read the tar/pax method is the best, but amnot sure
about the steps involved. So if someone will be able to share their
migration experrinces and documents if possible..
TIA.
Regards,
Mithun Prabhu
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