Veritas NetBackup™ Upgrade Guide

To manually initiate an upgrade of all clients in a policy from the administration console

1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, navigate to Deployment Management > Deployment Policies.
2. In the middle pane, expand the master server, and select the policy you want to run.
3. Right-click on the policy you want to start, and select Manual Deployment.
4. Alternatively, after selecting the policy you want to run, you can select Actions > Manual Deployment.

To manually initiate an upgrade of a specific client in a policy from the administration console

1. Select NetBackup Management > Host Properties > Clients in the NetBackup Administrative Console.
2. Right click on the client you want to upgrade in the right pane.
3. Select Upgrade Host.
4. In the Upgrade Host dialog:

   • Select the package you want to use from the Package drop-down.

   • Specify the type of schedule you want to run from the Type drop-down.

   • Select the media server you want to use from the Media server drop-down.

   • Confirm that the host you want upgraded is listed under Selected hosts.

5. Select OK to launch the upgrade.

   Note:

   You can also launch an upgrade job from the Policies section of the NetBackup Administrative Console. Select NetBackup Management > Policies in the NetBackup Administrative Console. In the middle pane, select Clients. Then right-click on the client you want to upgrade in the right pane and select Upgrade Host. Then follow the procedure shown.

To manually initiate an upgrade from the command line for all clients in a policy

Use this procedure to manually start an upgrade for all clients in a policy.

1. Open a command prompt and navigate to the directory shown:

   Windows: install_path\netbackup\bin

   UNIX or Linux: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin

2. Use the nbinstallcmd command as shown to launch a policy:

   nbinstallcmd -i -policy policy_name -schedule schedule [-master_server master]

   Where policy_name is the name of the deployment policy, schedule is the name of the schedule, and master is the name of the master server.

   Be aware that use of the -i option prevents a scheduled start of same policy and schedule. This behavior prevents duplicate jobs.

To manually initiate an upgrade from the command line for selected clients in a policy

Use this procedure to manually start an upgrade for selected clients in a policy.

1. Open a command prompt and navigate to the directory shown:

   Windows: install_path\netbackup\bin

   UNIX or Linux: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin

2. Use the nbinstallcmd command as shown:

   nbinstallcmd -policy policy_name -schedule schedule {-hosts filename|-host_filelist client1, client2, clientN}

   Where:

   • policy_name is the name of the deployment policy

   • schedule is the name of the schedule

   • filename is the name of a file that contains a list of clients to upgrade.

   • client1, client2, clientN is a list of clients to upgrade.

To manually initiate an upgrade of a single client from the command line without an associated policy

Use this procedure to manually start an upgrade for a single client without an associated policy. Be aware that an attempt to list multiple clients fails and generates an error.

1. Open a command prompt and navigate to the directory shown:

   Windows: install_path\netbackup\bin

   UNIX or Linux: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin

2. Use the nbinstallcmd command as shown:

   nbinstallcmd -operation_type operation -package package -media_server name -host_filelist client1

   Where:

   • operation is the operation type you want started.

   • package is the name of the package you want used for the upgrade operation.

   • name is the name of the media server.

   • client1 is the name of the client you want upgraded.