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Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Upgrade Guide

Last Published: 2019-01-08

Product(s): Appliances (3.1.1)

Introduction
1. About upgrades to NetBackup appliance software version 3.1.1 and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system
Upgrade planning
1. Guidelines and best practices for upgrading NetBackup appliances
  1. About upgrades for NetBackup Appliance HA setups
  2. Upgrade time estimation
Pre-upgrade tasks
1. Pre-upgrade tasks for appliance upgrades
Performing the upgrade
1. Methods for downloading appliance software release updates
2. Installing a NetBackup appliance software update using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
Post upgrade tasks
1. Post upgrade tasks for 3.1.1 upgrades
Troubleshooting
1. Troubleshooting upgrade issues

Third-party plug-ins for RHEL

Since all NetBackup appliances with version 2.6.1.2 and earlier use SLES version third-party plug-ins, upgrades to version 2.7.1 and later require that these plug-ins be replaced with the appropriate RHEL versions. If the preflight upgrade script identifies any required RHEL third-party plug-ins that are not found, the upgrade is not allowed to proceed.

Note:

The preflight upgrade script only identifies those plug-ins that are required for the upgrade. When version 2.7.1 was released, some third-party vendors had not yet completed development of their RHEL equivalent plug-ins. Make sure to check those vendor websites periodically for any additional plug-ins that you may need.

Refer to the following topic for installation details:

See Pre-upgrade tasks for appliance upgrades.