Veritas NetBackup™ Upgrade Guide
- Introduction
- About the NetBackup 8.1.2 Upgrade Guide
- About changes in NetBackup 8.1.2
- Veritas Smart Meter introduced
- Upgrades from NetBackup 7.6.0.4 and earlier are not supported
- HP-UX and AIX support change
- Newer Red Hat Linux compilers used with NetBackup 8.1.2
- VxUpdate replaces update_clients script in NetBackup 8.1.2
- Port 443 required for NetBackup web user interface
- About MSDP
- Performance issues with upgrades to NetBackup 8.1.2 from NetBackup 8.0 and earlier
- About certificate requirements for NetBackup 8.1
- SCCM and Chef deployment tools and documentation now available
- Potential required changes for NetApp clusters
- About automatic file changes from an upgrade
- Errors when Bare Metal Restore information is replicated using Auto Image Replication
- Known catalog backup limitation
- Available NetBackup upgrade methods
- About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools
- Recommended SORT procedures for new installations
- Recommended SORT procedures for upgrades
- About the NetBackup preinstall checker
- Planning for an upgrade
- About planning a NetBackup 8.1.2 upgrade
- How to plan for an upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.2
- About Veritas Smart Meter
- Best practices for Veritas Smart Meter
- Creating the user account to support the NetBackup web server
- About NetBackup 8.1.2 support for Fibre Transport Media Server with RHEL 7.5
- MSDP changes in NetBackup 8.1
- About security certificates for NetBackup hosts
- Master server upgrade
- About master server upgrades
- Preinstall procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 8.1.2
- Performing local, remote, or clustered server upgrades on Windows systems
- Performing silent upgrades on Windows systems
- Upgrading UNIX/Linux server software to NetBackup 8.1.2
- Post-install procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 8.1.2
- About NetBackup startup and shutdown scripts
- Completing your system update after an upgrade
- Media server upgrade
- MSDP upgrade for NetBackup
- 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
- Update cloud configuration file on the master server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.2
- 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
- Upgrading clients after servers are upgraded
- Install and upgrade of the UNIX and Linux client binaries with native installers
- 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 UNIX/Linux server software to NetBackup 8.1.2
You should schedule your upgrade and reconfiguration for a time when backups do not run. However, the upgrade procedure instructs you to deactivate all policies to ensure that backups do not interfere with the upgrade. You can also temporarily modify policies so that backups do not run while you upgrade and reconfigure NetBackup.
To upgrade UNIX/Linux server software to 8.1.2
- Log on as the root user on the server.
- If the NetBackup Administration Console is open, you must close it now.
- (Conditional) For clustered environments, perform the following tasks:
If necessary, edit the
bp.confand thevm.conffiles as follows:If a
REQUIRED_INTERFACEentry exists, replace it with aCLUSTER_NAMEentry. Otherwise, add a newCLUSTER_NAMEentry. This entry should be defined as the virtual server name.For a master server, make sure that the first
SERVERentry matches theCLUSTER_NAMEentry for thebp.conffile.Take the NetBackup Group offline. Use the command shown:
/opt/VRTSvcs/bin/hares -offline
Freeze the NetBackup Group so that migrations do not occur while the inactive nodes are upgraded. Use the command shown:
/opt/VRTSvcs/bin/hagrp -freeze group -persistent
If you have a VCS cluster configured, you can freeze the NetBackup Group by using the Cluster Manager interface or the command line.
Before you proceed with a cluster upgrade, refer to the NetBackup Clustered Master Server Administrator's Guide for other cluster upgrade requirements.
- For Solaris systems, all of the NetBackup scripts that you may have modified are removed when you run the upgrade script.
For non-Solaris systems, NetBackup scripts that are not covered in Chapter 1 that you modified are removed when you run the upgrade script. More information about this topic is available.
See About automatic file changes from an upgrade.
Save any files that you have modified and want to keep.
- Use one of the following methods to start the upgrade script:
ESD images (downloaded files)
Navigate to the location where the installation images reside.
Enter the following command:
./install
Native install tools
NetBackup supports the install and upgrade of the UNIX and Linux client binaries with native installers. More information is available.
See Install and upgrade of the UNIX and Linux client binaries with native installers.
- Follow the prompts in the installation script to install the NetBackup server binaries.
- When the script finishes, the binaries are successfully installed.
Proceed to the post-installation procedure.
More information is available.
See Post-install procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 8.1.2.