NetBackup™ Upgrade Guide
- Introduction
- About the NetBackup 10.0 Upgrade Guide
- Available NetBackup upgrade methods
- About changes in NetBackup 10.0
- Windows compiler and security requirements for NetBackup 9.1 and later installation and upgrade
- 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 10.0 upgrade
- How to plan for an upgrade to NetBackup 10.0
- Legacy logging directory 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
- About upgrade tools
- Upgrade operational notes and limitations
- Creating the user account to support the NetBackup web server
- About NetBackup 10.0 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 10.0
- Performing local, remote, or clustered server upgrades on Windows systems
- Performing silent upgrades on Windows systems
- Upgrading Linux server software to NetBackup 10.0
- Silently upgrading NetBackup primary server software on Linux
- Post-install procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 10.0
- 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
- Add or Remove Java GUI and JRE after upgrade
- About the NetBackup web user interface
- About the NetBackup answer file
- 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
- 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 OpsCenter server and your NetBackup Primary Server
- Post upgrade procedures for Amazon cloud storage servers
- Upgrading clients after servers are upgraded
- Upgrade failure rollback steps
- Index
Best practices for Veritas Usage Insights
Veritas suggests certain best practices for use of the Usage Insights tool.
Usage Insights is compatible with Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Veritas does not recommend using Microsoft Edge or Microsoft Internet Explorer, as they do not render all information correctly.
Confirm your site's ability to transmit secure web traffic.
Usage Insights uses HTTPS to send relevant information. Your primary server must allow outbound HTTPS traffic to take advantage of the automatic upload feature. Manual uploads require HTTPS traffic from the upload location.
Your customer registration key is not a license key.
The registration key is required for Usage Insights to work, but it is not your NetBackup license key. The customer registration key is downloaded from the Usage Insights website and is specific to Usage Insights.
If you have multiple account IDs, when you download your customer registration key, you may have an aggregate registration key. This aggregate registration key includes all of your account IDs. You can use the aggregate key on all of your primary servers. NetBackup does, however, prompt you to assign the specific key with a specific account ID to a specific primary server. If you want, you can use this aggregate key for all your primary servers.
During install and upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.2, allow the installer to copy the
veritas_customer_registration_key.jsonfile to its final destination. NetBackup can set the file permission and ownership correctly through this process. If you place the file onto your systems outside of the install or the upgrade process, the process may not work correctly.Be aware that NetBackup does not support the short file name format (8.3 format) for the customer registration key file name.
For answers to frequently asked questions, visit the URL shown:
https://help.veritas.com/vxhelp6/#/?context=veritas_usage_insights_netbackup&token=vui_nbu_faqs
To download the customer registration key
- Log into Veritas NetInsights Console with Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.
- Navigate to the Veritas Usage Insights page.
- Download the appropriate customer registration key for your primary server.