Veritas NetBackup™ Upgrade Guide
- Introduction
- About the NetBackup 8.1.2 Upgrade Guide
- About changes in NetBackup 8.1.2
- Veritas Smart Meter introduced
- Upgrades from NetBackup 7.6.0.4 and earlier are not supported
- HP-UX and AIX support change
- Newer Red Hat Linux compilers used with NetBackup 8.1.2
- VxUpdate replaces update_clients script in NetBackup 8.1.2
- Port 443 required for NetBackup web user interface
- About MSDP
- Performance issues with upgrades to NetBackup 8.1.2 from NetBackup 8.0 and earlier
- About certificate requirements for NetBackup 8.1
- SCCM and Chef deployment tools and documentation now available
- Potential required changes for NetApp clusters
- About automatic file changes from an upgrade
- Errors when Bare Metal Restore information is replicated using Auto Image Replication
- Known catalog backup limitation
- Available NetBackup upgrade methods
- About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools
- Recommended SORT procedures for new installations
- Recommended SORT procedures for upgrades
- About the NetBackup preinstall checker
- Planning for an upgrade
- About planning a NetBackup 8.1.2 upgrade
- How to plan for an upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.2
- About Veritas Smart Meter
- Best practices for Veritas Smart Meter
- Creating the user account to support the NetBackup web server
- About NetBackup 8.1.2 support for Fibre Transport Media Server with RHEL 7.5
- MSDP changes in NetBackup 8.1
- About security certificates for NetBackup hosts
- Master server upgrade
- About master server upgrades
- Preinstall procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 8.1.2
- Performing local, remote, or clustered server upgrades on Windows systems
- Performing silent upgrades on Windows systems
- Upgrading UNIX/Linux server software to NetBackup 8.1.2
- Post-install procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 8.1.2
- About NetBackup startup and shutdown scripts
- Completing your system update after an upgrade
- Media server upgrade
- MSDP upgrade for NetBackup
- 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
- About the NetBackup web user interface
- About the NetBackup answer file
- Update cloud configuration file on the master server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.2
- About NetBackup software availability
- Additional post-upgrade steps for NetApp clusters
- Using NetApp disk arrays with Replication Director
- About compatibility between NetBackup versions
- Installation and upgrade requirements for UNIX and Linux
- Installation and upgrade requirements for Windows and Windows clusters
- Requirements for Windows cluster installations and upgrades
- Upgrading clients after servers are upgraded
- Install and upgrade of the UNIX and Linux client binaries with native installers
- Removing a clustered media server by migrating all data to a new media server
- Disabling the connection between your NetBackup OpsCenter server and your NetBackup Master Server
- Post upgrade procedures for Amazon cloud storage servers
About master server upgrades
Upgrade NetBackup on the master server before you upgrade NetBackup on any other computers in your environment. Once the master server upgrade is finished, you can upgrade media servers, and then clients. NetBackup supports a mixed version environment. More information about this topic is available.
See About compatibility between NetBackup versions.
Note:
Remember to update NetBackup OpsCenter before you update your NetBackup master servers. You must also disable OpsCenter data collection. See the NetBackup OpsCenter Administrator's Guide for complete information.
NetBackup includes an administration console for all the supported versions of NetBackup. More information about supported versions of NetBackup is available.
Note:
Veritas recommends that after you install or upgrade NetBackup server software, you should uninstall older versions of the Remote Administration Console (Windows and Java) present on the host. If the native NetBackup Administration Console for Windows is present, it is automatically uninstalled when you install or upgrade the NetBackup server software.
See About compatibility between NetBackup versions.
Proceed with the upgrade.