Veritas NetBackup™ Upgrade Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.1.2)
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 8.1.2 Upgrade Guide
    2. About changes in NetBackup 8.1.2
      1.  
        Veritas Smart Meter introduced
      2.  
        Upgrades from NetBackup 7.6.0.4 and earlier are not supported
      3.  
        HP-UX and AIX support change
      4.  
        Newer Red Hat Linux compilers used with NetBackup 8.1.2
      5.  
        VxUpdate replaces update_clients script in NetBackup 8.1.2
      6.  
        Port 443 required for NetBackup web user interface
      7.  
        About MSDP
      8.  
        Performance issues with upgrades to NetBackup 8.1.2 from NetBackup 8.0 and earlier
      9.  
        About certificate requirements for NetBackup 8.1
      10.  
        SCCM and Chef deployment tools and documentation now available
    3.  
      Potential required changes for NetApp clusters
    4.  
      About automatic file changes from an upgrade
    5.  
      Errors when Bare Metal Restore information is replicated using Auto Image Replication
    6.  
      Known catalog backup limitation
    7.  
      Available NetBackup upgrade methods
    8.  
      About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools
    9.  
      Recommended SORT procedures for new installations
    10.  
      Recommended SORT procedures for upgrades
    11.  
      About the NetBackup preinstall checker
  2. Planning for an upgrade
    1.  
      About planning a NetBackup 8.1.2 upgrade
    2.  
      How to plan for an upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.2
    3.  
      About Veritas Smart Meter
    4.  
      Best practices for Veritas Smart Meter
    5.  
      Creating the user account to support the NetBackup web server
    6.  
      About NetBackup 8.1.2 support for Fibre Transport Media Server with RHEL 7.5
    7.  
      MSDP changes in NetBackup 8.1
    8.  
      About security certificates for NetBackup hosts
  3. Master server upgrade
    1.  
      About master server upgrades
    2.  
      Preinstall procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 8.1.2
    3.  
      Performing local, remote, or clustered server upgrades on Windows systems
    4.  
      Performing silent upgrades on Windows systems
    5.  
      Upgrading UNIX/Linux server software to NetBackup 8.1.2
    6.  
      Post-install procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 8.1.2
    7.  
      About NetBackup startup and shutdown scripts
    8.  
      Completing your system update after an upgrade
  4. Media server upgrade
    1.  
      Upgrading NetBackup media servers to NetBackup 8.1.2
  5. MSDP upgrade for NetBackup
    1.  
      MSDP upgrade considerations for NetBackup 8.1
    2.  
      About MSDP rolling data conversion
    3.  
      About MSDP fingerprinting algorithm changes
  6. NetBackup Deployment Management with VxUpdate
    1.  
      About VxUpdate
    2.  
      Commands used in VxUpdate
    3.  
      Repository management
    4.  
      Deployment policy management
    5.  
      Manually initiating upgrades from the master server using VxUpdate
    6.  
      Manually initiating upgrades from the client using VxUpdate
    7.  
      Deployment job status
  7. Appendix A. Reference
    1.  
      NetBackup master server web server user and group creation
    2.  
      Generate a certificate on the inactive nodes of a clustered master server
    3.  
      About the NetBackup Java Runtime Environment
    4. About the NetBackup web user interface
      1.  
        First-time sign in to a NetBackup master server from the NetBackup web UI
      2.  
        Sign out of the NetBackup web UI
    5.  
      About the NetBackup answer file
    6.  
      Update cloud configuration file on the master server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.2
    7.  
      About NetBackup software availability
    8.  
      Additional post-upgrade steps for NetApp clusters
    9.  
      Using NetApp disk arrays with Replication Director
    10.  
      About compatibility between NetBackup versions
    11.  
      Installation and upgrade requirements for UNIX and Linux
    12.  
      Installation and upgrade requirements for Windows and Windows clusters
    13.  
      Requirements for Windows cluster installations and upgrades
    14.  
      Upgrading clients after servers are upgraded
    15.  
      Install and upgrade of the UNIX and Linux client binaries with native installers
    16.  
      Removing a clustered media server by migrating all data to a new media server
    17.  
      Disabling the connection between your NetBackup OpsCenter server and your NetBackup Master Server
    18.  
      Post upgrade procedures for Amazon cloud storage servers

Disabling the connection between your NetBackup OpsCenter server and your NetBackup Master Server

If you need to upgrade your NetBackup Master Server before you upgrade your NetBackup OpsCenter server, you can disable the relationship between your master and OpsCenter servers.

Please be aware of the limitations and potential data loss concerns related to disabling data collection:

  • Veritas does not support data collection in OpsCenter with a NetBackup master server that is at a higher version than OpsCenter. OpsCenter must be at the same version or higher than the NetBackup Master Server.

  • After the OpsCenter Data Collection is disabled for the master server, OpsCenter does not receive any alerts or new data in the OpsCenter reports. Data that was collected before data collection was disabled is still available in the OpsCenter reports.

  • After you upgrade OpsCenter and enable data collection, OpsCenter receives any new alerts for the master server and new data in the reports. OpsCenter collects data for the time when data collection was disabled only if the data is still available on the master server. Reporting data and alerts are lost if the master server job retention level is shorter than the time that the data collection is disabled.

To disable the connection between the master server and the OpsCenter server

  1. Disable data collection in OpsCenter.

    Settings > Configuration > NetBackup > NetBackup Master Server to be upgraded > Disable Data Collection

  2. Upgrade the NetBackup Master Server.

    You can now operate both NetBackup and OpsCenter, but OpsCenter does not have complete data.

To enable the connection between the master server and the OpsCenter server

  1. Upgrade OpsCenter.
  2. Enable data collection on OpsCenter once the OpsCenter upgrade completes successfully.

    Settings > Configuration > NetBackup > NetBackup Master Server to be upgraded > Enable Data Collection