Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Upgrade Guide
- Introduction
- Upgrade planning
- Pre-upgrade tasks
- Performing the upgrade
- Post upgrade tasks
- Troubleshooting
Stop all backup jobs and run a software self-test
The preflight check verifies whether there are any active jobs. To help ensure a successful upgrade, perform the following:
Log on to the NetBackup Administration Console as the administrator.
Before master server upgrades, pause all jobs and any SLPs (Storage Lifecycle Policies).
Before media server upgrades, stop all jobs that are currently running and suspend the jobs that may start during the upgrade. You must prevent jobs from attempting to start on the media server during an upgrade.
After all jobs have been stopped or suspended and all SLPs have been paused, run the following command from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu for a validation test:
Support > Test Software
The software self-test result must show Pass.
Note:
This command performs a backup and restore test to the
/tmpdirectory. If the/tmpdirectory for the appliance you are upgrading is on the NetBackup exclude list, you must remove it from that list before you run the self-test command. Otherwise, the self-test fails.