Veritas NetBackup™ Upgrade Guide
- Introduction
- Planning for an upgrade
- General upgrade planning information
- About upgrade tools
- Upgrade operational notes and limitations
- Creating the user account to support the NetBackup web server
- About NetBackup 8.2 support for Fibre Transport Media Server with RHEL 7.5
- MSDP changes in NetBackup 8.1
- Potential required changes for NetApp clusters
- Errors when Bare Metal Restore information is replicated using Auto Image Replication
- Upgrade issue with pre-8.1 clients and 8.1 or later media servers
- Master server upgrade
- About master server upgrades
- Preinstall procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 8.2
- Performing local, remote, or clustered server upgrades on Windows systems
- Performing silent upgrades on Windows systems
- Upgrading UNIX and Linux server software to NetBackup 8.2
- Post-install procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 8.2
- About NetBackup startup and shutdown scripts
- Completing your system update after an upgrade
- Media server upgrade
- MSDP upgrade for NetBackup
- Client upgrade
- NetBackup Deployment Management with VxUpdate
- Appendix A. Reference
- NetBackup master server web server user and group creation
- Generate a certificate on the inactive nodes of a clustered master server
- About the NetBackup Java Runtime Environment
- About the NetBackup web user interface
- About the NetBackup answer file
- About RBAC bootstrapping
- Update cloud configuration file on the master server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 8.2
- About NetBackup software availability
- Additional post-upgrade steps for NetApp clusters
- Using NetApp disk arrays with Replication Director
- About compatibility between NetBackup versions
- Installation and upgrade requirements for UNIX and Linux
- Installation and upgrade requirements for Windows and Windows clusters
- Requirements for Windows cluster installations and upgrades
- Removing a clustered media server by migrating all data to a new media server
- Disabling the connection between your NetBackup OpsCenter server and your NetBackup Master Server
- Post upgrade procedures for Amazon cloud storage servers
- Upgrading clients after servers are upgraded
Available NetBackup upgrade methods
The table that is shown details the various ways you can upgrade NetBackup.
Table:
Upgrade method and operating system | Server | Client |
|---|---|---|
Interactive UNIX and Linux | Master server See Upgrading UNIX and Linux server software to NetBackup 8.2. Media server | Review the server information |
Interactive Windows |
Master server See Performing local, remote, or clustered server upgrades on Windows systems. Media server | Review the server information |
Silent UNIX and Linux | Not a valid upgrade method for master servers. Media server See Silently upgrading NetBackup media server software on UNIX and Linux. |
See Upgrade of the UNIX and Linux client binaries with native installers. |
Silent Windows | Master and media server | Review the server information |
Remote UNIX and Linux | Not a valid upgrade method. |
Remote UNIX and Linux client upgrades See Upgrading clients after servers are upgraded. Chef and SCCM templates |
Remote Windows | Master server See Performing local, remote, or clustered server upgrades on Windows systems. Media server | Chef and SCCM templates |