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Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Documentation
Last Published:
2019-11-04
Product(s):
Appliances (3.1.2)
Platform: NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Getting to know the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- NetBackup Virtual Appliance product description
- Preparing to deploy the appliance
- Deploying and configuring the appliance
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance master server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance CloudCatalyst
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
- Post initial configuration procedures
- Appliance common tasks
- Storage management
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
- About viewing storage space information using the Show command
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
- Network connection management
- Managing users
- About authenticating LDAP users
- About authenticating Active Directory users
- About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users
- About user authorization on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
- Using the appliance
- About configuring Host parameters for your appliance on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- About Copilot functionality and Share management
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
- About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
- About mounting a remote NFS
- About Auto Image Replication from a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Monitoring the appliance
- About SNMP
- About Call Home
- Appliance security
- About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Setting the appliance login banner
- Upgrading the appliance
- About upgrading to NetBackup Virtual Appliance software version 3.1.2
- Requirements and best practices for upgrading NetBackup appliances
- Methods for downloading appliance software release updates
- Appliance restore
- Decommissioning and Reconfiguring
- Troubleshooting
- About disaster recovery
- About NetBackup support utilities
- Appliance logging
- Commands overview
- Appendix A. Appliance commands
- Appendix B. Manage commands
- Appendix C. Monitor commands
- Appendix D. Network commands
- Appendix E. Reports commands
- Appendix F. Settings commands
- Appendix G. Support commands
Name
Main > Manage > Software > Readme — Defines the NetBackup patch process.
SYNOPSIS
Readme
DESCRIPTION
This command defines the patch process for the appliance.
OPTIONS
- Readme
This command defines the patch process for the appliance.
EXAMPLES
This command contains the following patch information.
Patch Readme ============ The following procedures explain how to copy a software release update on to the NetBackup Appliance and install the update. To download software update directly from the Veritas Support Web Site: 1. Use the 'List AvailablePatch' command to look for the latest release update s. 2. Use the 'Download' command to download the release update. 3. Use the 'List Downloaded' command to list all of the downloaded release updates. Note the name of the update to install. To upload a software update from a local computer: 1. Login as the user 'admin' to the appliance. 2. Use the 'Share Open' command to open the NFS and CIFS shares so the appliance can receive the release updates. For NFS: (abc123:/inst/patch/incoming) For CIFS: (\\abc123\incoming_patches) 3. On the local computer, perform the following steps: a. Mount/Map the appropriate NFS/CIFS share. For CIFS, you must map using the appliance 'admin' user's credentials. b. Download the release update from the Veritas Support Web site. c. Unzip the release update and review the README file in the zip. d. Upload the unzipped release update to the mounted share. e. Unmap/Unmount the mounted share. 4. Use the 'Share Close' command to close the NFS and CIFS shares. 5. Use the 'List Downloaded' command to list all of the downloaded release updates. Note the name of the update to install. To install a release update on the NetBackup Appliance: 1. Use the 'Install' command to install the release update. Use the name of the release update that you noted in the procedures above when you entered the 'List Downloaded' command.