Veritas NetBackup™ LiveUpdate Guide
- Introduction
- Setting up a LiveUpdate server
- Updating servers and clients
- About LiveUpdate policies
- Creating a LiveUpdate policy
- Importing clients into LiveUpdate policies
- About updating servers
- Stopping NetBackup processes and services before upgrading locally
- Updating servers by using NetBackup LiveUpdate
- Updating clients by using NetBackup LiveUpdate
- About LiveUpdate logs
- Disabling LiveUpdate on NetBackup hosts
- Appendix A. Reference
Copying NetBackup LiveUpdate formatted packages to your LiveUpdate server
Before you can run a LiveUpdate policy successfully, you must copy the NetBackup LiveUpdate formatted packages to your NetBackup LiveUpdate server. You can obtain the packages by using one of the following methods:
Download from Support website (release updates and hot fixes | NetBackup LiveUpdate release update packages are different from the typical NetBackup release update packages. The LiveUpdate agent can only download and install the packages that are signed and formatted specifically for LiveUpdate. NetBackup LiveUpdate package names start with |
Copy files from DVD (major and minor releases) | Copy the contents of the NetBackup LiveUpdate formatted clients DVD to the desired location on your NetBackup LiveUpdate server. |
Use the following procedures to copy NetBackup LiveUpdate formatted packages to your NetBackup LiveUpdate server.
To download NetBackup release updates or hot fixes to your NetBackup LiveUpdate server
- On your NetBackup LiveUpdate server, log on as the administrator.
- Open your Internet browser and enter the following address:
- Enter the following in the Knowledge Base Search box:
In the Enter keywords or phrase box enter liveupdate download links.
In the Add a product for best results box, enter NetBackup Enterprise Server.
- Click the magnifying glass to run the search.
- In the search results, click the hyperlink that corresponds to the correct version of NetBackup for your environment.
- On the page of download links, scroll down until you reach the LiveUpdate section of the tech note.
- Follow the appropriate links to download the LiveUpdate packages for the required platform.
To update any UNIX hosts, you must download all UNIX release update files.
To update Windows hosts, download the appropriate release update files for your hardware versions.
- Decompress the files into a directory on your LiveUpdate server.
To copy NetBackup LiveUpdate formatted packages from a NetBackup DVD
- Insert the DVD with the NetBackup LiveUpdate formatted packages into a drive on your NetBackup LiveUpdate server.
- Copy all files on the DVD to the desired location on your NetBackup LiveUpdate server.