NetBackup™ Upgrade Guide
- Introduction
- About the NetBackup 10.5 Upgrade Guide
- Available NetBackup upgrade methods
- About changes in NetBackup 10.5
- Client push staging area no longer populated
- VRTSpddei.rpm no longer delivered in NetBackup 10.5
- About binaries installed on primary and media servers
- License file required for upgrade
- Windows primary server upgrades are slowed if a large number of files are in the installation directory
- About NetBackup database changes
- Java GUI and JRE installation optional for some computers
- Logging directory permissions require reset on rollback
- Upgrades from NetBackup 7.6.0.4 and earlier are not supported
- External certificate authority certificates supported in NetBackup 8.2 and later
- About Veritas Usage Insights
- Best practices for Veritas Usage Insights
- Planning for an upgrade
- General upgrade planning information
- About planning a NetBackup 10.5 upgrade
- How to plan for an upgrade to NetBackup 10.5
- Legacy logging directory security update
- Unified logging security update
- Notifications, Messages, and Resiliency configuration information are not upgraded
- Known catalog backup limitation
- About security certificates for NetBackup hosts
- About automatic file changes from an upgrade
- Reduce the job database size before upgrade
- Known SUSE Linux primary server upgrade issue
- Performance and tuning considerations
- About upgrade tools
- Upgrade operational notes and limitations
- Minimum operating system versions
- Windows compiler and security requirements for NetBackup 10.5 and later upgrade
- Creating the user account to support the NetBackup web server
- About NetBackup 10.5 support for Fibre Transport Media Server with RHEL 7.5 and later
- 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
- General upgrade planning information
- Primary server upgrade
- About primary server upgrades
- Preinstall procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 10.5
- Performing local, remote, or clustered server upgrades on Windows systems
- Performing silent upgrades on Windows systems
- Upgrading Linux server software to NetBackup 10.5
- Silently upgrading NetBackup primary server software on Linux
- Post-install procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 10.5
- 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 primary server web server user and group creation
- NetBackup database user
- Generate a certificate on the inactive nodes of a clustered primary server
- About the NetBackup Java Runtime Environment
- Add or Remove Java GUI and JRE after upgrade
- About the NetBackup web user interface
- About the NetBackup answer file
- About pushing client software from a primary server to clients
- About the NetBackup IT Analytics Data Collector
- Manually install or uninstall NetBackup IT Analytics Data Collector binaries
- Manually configure the NetBackup IT Analytics Data Collector
- Manually upgrading the NetBackup IT Analytics Data Collector
- Persistent Java Virtual Machine options
- About RBAC bootstrapping
- About NetBackup software availability
- Additional post-upgrade steps for NetApp clusters
- Using NetApp disk arrays with Replication Director
- About compatibility between NetBackup versions
- Upgrade requirements for UNIX and Linux
- Upgrade requirements for Windows and Windows clusters
- Requirements for Windows cluster upgrades
- Removing a clustered media server by migrating all data to a new media server
- Post upgrade procedures for Amazon cloud storage servers
- Upgrading clients after servers are upgraded
- Upgrade failure rollback steps
- Size guidance for the NetBackup primary server and domain
Preinstall procedure for upgrading media servers to NetBackup 10.5
Use the procedure that is shown to upgrade your media server to NetBackup 10.5.
Several tools are available to help you perform the extra step that is required for the guided method. For more details, contact your Business Critical Services (BCS) representative.
Additional steps are required if the NetBackup upgrade includes an upgrade to RHEL 7.5 and you use Fibre Transport Media Server (FTMS). More information is available.
See About NetBackup 10.5 support for Fibre Transport Media Server with RHEL 7.5 and later.
Preinstall steps to upgrade media servers to NetBackup 10.5
- Perform environment checks with the SORT tool.
- Be sure that all operating system and security updates are applied.
- Perform any pre-upgrade tasks that you would normally do in regard to your NetBackup media server. For example:
Disable antivirus software.
If the antivirus software cannot be disabled, you should exclude NetBackup files and folders from virus scan events. More information about excluding NetBackup files and folders is available.
Stop all customized or third-party scripts.
- (Conditional) If you plan to change your NetApp cluster to Vserver mode from node scope mode, create a detailed image report for each filer. You can generate this report with the bpimagelist command. The example that is shown is one possible option. Use whatever options are necessary for your environment.
bpimagelist - client ndmp_host_name
- Stop any applications on the system that interact with NetBackup. This step includes any databases or system components being backed up. Failure to stop these applications may result in unexpected behavior. Observed behavior includes aborted upgrades and application failures.
For Oracle users, ensure that no backups are running. Stop the RMAN processes before you install NetBackup. If you use AIX, you should run /usr/bin/slibclean as the root user after you stop the RMAN processes.
If you cannot stop your Oracle database, a procedure is available that may let you install NetBackup with the Oracle database active. More information on this topic is available.
- Stop all NetBackup services.
On UNIX and Linux systems: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bp.kill_all
On Windows systems: install_path\NetBackup\bin\bpdown -f
The preinstall procedure is completed. Proceed to upgrade the NetBackup binaries, based on your platform. More information is available about this topic.
See Performing local, remote, or clustered server upgrades on Windows systems.
See Performing silent upgrades on Windows systems.
See Upgrading Linux server software to NetBackup 10.5.
See Silently upgrading NetBackup media server software on Linux.
See About VxUpdate.