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19 Migrating to Portal from older Amanda Products
Currently, only Amanda@Work.Group/Windows version 3.05 or above can be migrated
to Amanda Portal. Moving the data from the Amanda@Work.Group/Windows to the
Amanda Portal system is called migration.
If you’re using an older Amanda product other than Amanda@Work.Group/Windows
you’ll have to upgrade it to Amanda@Work.Group/Windows version 3.05 or above
before you can migrate to Amanda Portal.
Migrating from Amanda@Work.Group/Windows to Amanda Portal
1) Stop the Amanda service if it’s running. Run CKDB and VMBEdit from the
C:\Amanda prompt to make sure everything is OK (i.e. there is no corruption or
problems with the database). If these programs do NOT run clean (without error) contact
Amanda Technical Support for assistance on how to correct the problem before
continuing to step 2).
Important Note: An alternate way of handling a migration is to run CKDB and VMBedit
on your old system. Then remove that hard disk and install it as a slave drive (D: or
whatever) on the new Portal system, with Portal installed in the C:\Amanda folder. Then
run Migrate on the D: drive and it’ll still generate a script.tcl file which has the correct
paths in it (i.e. it’ll refer to d:... instead of c:...). You would typically do this if your new
Portal system is going to have a new, bigger hard disk than your old system had.
2) Run migrate.exe from the C:\Amanda directory.
Example: C:\Amanda>migrate –tc:\temp –oscript.tcl
Note: The output file created “script.tcl” will be created in the C:\Amanda directory.
Migrate scans the Amanda@Work.Group/Windows system creating a TCL script for
Amanda Portal to read in later. If you don’t have a copy of migrate.exe contact Amanda
Technical support for assistance, or you can download it from
http://amanda.theamandacompany.com/http/migrate.exe
3) After migrate is completed, install Amanda Portal on the same system, but in another
directory (unlike other Amanda products, Amanda Portal can be installed in any folder on
any partition), Amanda@Work.Group/Windows
is already installed in the C:\Amanda
directory. Run the Portal Installation Wizard as you would normally (to configure and
activate the system).