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
About the NetBackup Java Runtime Environment
Veritas installs a customized version of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) when you install any of the products shown. The customized version of JRE does not include all the directories that a standard JRE installation includes, such as man and plugin.
Products that install the JRE:
NetBackup primary server, media server, or UNIX and Linux client software
NetBackup Java Remote Administration Console
Starting with NetBackup 8.3, the Java GUI and the JRE packages are optional for Linux and Windows media servers and UNIX and Linux clients.
As with previous releases, the Java GUI and JRE packages are installed automatically on all primary servers because they are required. The Java GUI and the JRE are not part of the default installation on Windows clients. Install the Java Remote Administration Console if you require this functionality on your Windows clients.
The various NetBackup installation methods allow the user the choice to install or not install the Java GUI and JRE packages. More information about installing or removing the Java GUI and the JRE after install or upgrade is available.
See Add or Remove Java GUI and JRE after upgrade.
Previously, the JRE package that is installed with NetBackup was only updated when you upgraded to a later release of the software. You can use the nbcomponentupdate utility to update the JRE to a supported version for the products shown:
NetBackup primary server, media server, or UNIX and Linux client software
NetBackup Java Remote Administration Console
Note:
You cannot use this utility to update the JRE for the NetBackup Plug-in for VMware vCenter.
If your system is running NetBackup 8.0 or later, use Table: Location of JRE update utility to determine the location of the nbcomponentupdate utility.
Table: Location of JRE update utility
Product | Operating system | Path |
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NetBackup | Windows |
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UNIX or Linux |
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NetBackup Java Remote Administration Console | Windows |
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If you have a NetBackup 7.7.x or earlier, download the nbcomponentupdate utility from the location shown:
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000115043
More information about the nbcomponentupdate command and its parameters is available.
NetBackup Commands Reference Guide
The NetBackup installed version of the JRE is the supported major version for that NetBackup release. Use this utility to update to a minor version of the supported major JRE version. For example, if NetBackup 8.0 installed JRE 1.8.0.31, the supported major version is 1.8. Use this utility to update to JRE 1.8.0.92.
Veritas recommends that you update to another major JRE version only if the JRE vendor declares an end-of-life for the installed JRE version. If the JRE vendor declares an end-of-life for JRE 1.8, which is also the installed JRE version in your environment, update to JRE 1.9.
Close the product, such as NetBackup, before you attempt to update the JRE. If the product is active when you attempt the update, the utility exits with an error message that requests you to close the product.
Caution:
Do not stop the utility while the JRE update is in progress. This action can cause the product that uses the JRE, such as NetBackup, to become unstable.
If there are additional versions of the JRE installed on your system for other applications, the NetBackup JRE does not interfere with them. The NetBackup JRE does not provide integration with web browsers and does not allow Java Applets or Web Start to run. For that reason, the NetBackup JRE cannot be used in a browser-based attack that uses Java Applet or Web Start vulnerabilities.
More information about NetBackup JRE alerts is available.