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Veritas NetBackup™ CloudPoint Install and Upgrade Guide

Last Published: 2022-03-28

Product(s): NetBackup (10.0)

Upgrading CloudPoint using patch or hotfix

You can also upgrade your current CloudPoint server using a patch or a hotfix. All the considerations and steps that apply for a normal upgrade, also apply to the upgrade being done using a patch or a hotfix, except that instead of downloading a new CloudPoint image, you download the patch/hotfix binaries.

Contact Veritas Technical Support at https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/contact-us to obtain an Emergency Engineering Binary (EEB) for patch/hotfix.

Following are the brief steps explained with an example. For the detailed upgrade procedures

See Upgrading CloudPoint.

Consider that the currently installed version is CloudPoint 9.1.0.0.9344 and you are upgrading to a CloudPoint patch version 9.1.0.0.9349 on a RHEL8.3 system in a Podaman environment. The same steps apply for the Docker environment with the appropriate Docker commands.

To upgrade CloudPoint using a patch or a hotfix

Download the CloudPoint EEB obtained from Veritas Technical Support.
Example: Veritas_CloudPoint_9.1.0.0.9349.img.gz
Unzip and un-tar the binaries and list the contents:
# gunzip VRTScloudpoint-podman-9.1.0.0.9349.tar.gz
# tar -xvf VRTScloudpoint-podman-9.1.0.0.9349.tar
Run the following command to prepare the CloudPoint host for installation:
# ./flexsnap_preinstall.sh

Verify that there are no protection policy snapshots or other operations in progress and then stop CloudPoint by running the following command:

# podman run -it --rm --privileged 
-v /cloudpoint:/cloudpoint 
-v /run/podman/podman.sock:/run/podman/podman.sock 
veritas/flexsnap-cloudpoint:<current_version> stop

Upgrade CloudPoint by running the following command:
```
# podman run -it --rm --privileged 
-v /cloudpoint:/cloudpoint 
-v /run/podman/podman.sock:/run/podman/podman.sock 
veritas/flexsnap-cloudpoint:<EEB_version>install
```
For an unattended installation, use the following command:
```
# podman run -it --rm --privileged 
-v /cloudpoint:/cloudpoint 
-v /run/podman/podman.sock:/run/podman/podman.sock 
veritas/flexsnap-cloudpoint:<EEB_version>install -y
```
Here, EEB_version represents the CloudPoint patch/hotfix version you are upgrading to, for example '9.1.0.0.9349'
The -y option passes an approval for all the subsequent installation prompts and allows the installer to proceed in a non-interactive mode.
Note:
Ensure that you enter the command without any line breaks.
The installer first loads the individual service images and then launches them in their respective containers.
(Optional) Run the following command to remove the previous version images.
# podman rmi -f <imagename>:<oldimage_tagid>
To verify that the new CloudPoint version is installed successfully:
See Verifying that CloudPoint is installed successfully.
This concludes the CloudPoint upgrade process using a patch or a hotfix . Verify that your CloudPoint configuration settings and data are preserved as is.
If CloudPoint is not registered with the NetBackup primary server, you must register it now.
Refer to the NetBackup Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide for instructions.