Comments on: Symantec Backup EXEC: How to migrate Data and catalogs to a fresh installation of 11d or above on a different server

By: Teri

Teri — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:14:10 +0000

Also is the feed still monitored? Thank you!

By: Teri

Teri — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:13:00 +0000

Will this process also work if you are migrating Backup Exec 2010 R3 from a Win 2003 32-bit server to a Win 2008 64-bit server?

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:14:31 +0000

What if… You are involved in a disaster and don’t have access to that server anymore. Your catalogs that you depend on are gone.

I need to be able to backup these catalog files with the backup job on a scheduled basis. Is there a way to run this as a backup job in the program itself?

By: Cyd

Cyd — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:47:28 +0000

@Andrew Hello Andrew, I have the same situation. Did you find an answer?

By: Cyd

Cyd — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:46:31 +0000

I found this as the first step. Is this required if the servername is different when using the default backup exec database?

If you are keeping the same server name (skip the SQL commands below and go right to transfer section). If not you will have to change your SQL instance name accordingly.

osql -E -S servername\BKUPEXEC
use bedb press enter
UPDATE DataPartition SET PartitionName=’SERVERNAME’ WHERE PartitionID = 0 press enter
SELECT partitionname FROM datapartition press enter
go press enter

Thank you.

By: allan

allan — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:00:57 +0000

So just do a reagualr upgrade to Server01 from 12.5 to 2010 before the move to serv02 (step 2) – I sssume simple ? (server will ask when I try and install if I want to upgrade?)

By: rafael castillo

rafael castillo — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:17:24 +0000

hola alguien sabe si puedo ver mi numero de value en mi cosola de backup exec ?

By: Ed8870

Ed8870 — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:25:16 +0000

Can anyone tell me if this works if with Storage Option installed? I am getting error after the Copy Database when the services attempt to restart. Device and Media Service terminated with the following error %%536837819

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:29:35 +0000

Many thanks for this – just migrated from BE2010 on a 2003 R2 server 32 bit to a 2008 R2 server……………..did as you described excluding the reg changes. All worked well.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:53:48 +0000

OK took a bit of trial and error but it worked! Wish I’d have seen this page before I did my migration from 12.5 to 2010, would’ve saved me alot of work!