Veritas NetBackup™ Upgrade Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.2)
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 8.2 Upgrade Guide
    2.  
      Available NetBackup upgrade methods
    3. About changes in NetBackup 8.2
      1.  
        Upgrades from NetBackup 7.6.0.4 and earlier are not supported
      2.  
        External certificate authority certificates supported by NetBackup 8.2
    4.  
      About Veritas Smart Meter
    5.  
      Best practices for Veritas Smart Meter
  2. Planning for an upgrade
    1. General upgrade planning information
      1.  
        About planning a NetBackup 8.2 upgrade
      2.  
        How to plan for an upgrade to NetBackup 8.2
      3.  
        Known catalog backup limitation
      4.  
        About security certificates for NetBackup hosts
      5.  
        About automatic file changes from an upgrade
    2. About upgrade tools
      1.  
        About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools
      2.  
        Recommended SORT procedures for upgrades
      3.  
        Recommended SORT procedures for new installations
      4.  
        About the NetBackup preinstall checker
    3. Upgrade operational notes and limitations
      1.  
        Creating the user account to support the NetBackup web server
      2.  
        About NetBackup 8.2 support for Fibre Transport Media Server with RHEL 7.5
      3.  
        MSDP changes in NetBackup 8.1
      4.  
        Potential required changes for NetApp clusters
      5.  
        Errors when Bare Metal Restore information is replicated using Auto Image Replication
      6.  
        Upgrade issue with pre-8.1 clients and 8.1 or later media servers
  3. Master server upgrade
    1.  
      About master server upgrades
    2.  
      Preinstall procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 8.2
    3.  
      Performing local, remote, or clustered server upgrades on Windows systems
    4.  
      Performing silent upgrades on Windows systems
    5.  
      Upgrading UNIX and Linux server software to NetBackup 8.2
    6.  
      Post-install procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 8.2
    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 8.2
    2.  
      Silently upgrading NetBackup media server software on UNIX and Linux
  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. Client upgrade
    1.  
      About client upgrades
    2.  
      Upgrading UNIX and Linux clients with the NetBackup upgrade script
    3.  
      Upgrade of the UNIX and Linux client binaries with native installers
  7. 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 media server or client using VxUpdate
    7.  
      Deployment job status
  8. 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
    5.  
      About the NetBackup answer file
    6.  
      About RBAC bootstrapping
    7.  
      Update cloud configuration file on the master server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 8.2
    8.  
      About NetBackup software availability
    9.  
      Additional post-upgrade steps for NetApp clusters
    10.  
      Using NetApp disk arrays with Replication Director
    11.  
      About compatibility between NetBackup versions
    12.  
      Installation and upgrade requirements for UNIX and Linux
    13.  
      Installation and upgrade requirements for Windows and Windows clusters
    14.  
      Requirements for Windows cluster installations and upgrades
    15.  
      Removing a clustered media server by migrating all data to a new media server
    16.  
      Disabling the connection between your NetBackup OpsCenter server and your NetBackup Master Server
    17.  
      Post upgrade procedures for Amazon cloud storage servers
    18.  
      Upgrading clients after servers are upgraded

Additional post-upgrade steps for NetApp clusters

After a NetBackup upgrade, review your NetApp cluster configuration as additional steps may be required to insure everything continues to work as expected. Table: Additional required NetApp cluster changes lists the various configurations and how to proceed.

Caution:

If at any time after the upgrade the mode changes from Node scope to Vserver aware, you must perform the additional steps. Failure to perform the additional steps places your data at risk.

Table: Additional required NetApp cluster changes

NetApp cluster mode at time of upgrade

Changes to NetApp cluster mode after upgrade

More information

Node scope mode

No changes

Veritas and NetApp both recommend that you change to Vserver aware mode at your earliest convenience.

Node scope mode

Change to Vserver aware mode

Additional steps required.

See “Additional changes for Node scope mode to Vserver aware mode”.

Vserver aware mode

Not applicable

Additional steps required.

See “Additional changes required for NetApp clusters in Vserver aware mode”.

Note:

Once a media server detects Vserver aware mode, no further backup activities are performed on any other media server running any earlier releases of NetBackup.

If you change from Node scope mode to Vserver aware mode, you must do the following:

Additional changes for Node scope mode to Vserver aware mode

  1. Enable the Vserver aware mode on the cluster by disabling node-scope-mode.
  2. If there are tape devices attached to the cluster nodes, you must reconfigure them. Configure the tape devices to use the cluster-management logical interface (LIF) as the NDMP host for the device configuration. NetBackup does not support use of node name for device configuration.

    See the Veritas NetBackup for NDMP Administrator's Guide for additional information.

  3. Credential all the LIF that are used for backups.

    This activity includes the Cluster Management LIF as well as any Vserver Data LIFs that are used for backup policies.

    See the Veritas NetBackup for NDMP Administrator's Guide for additional information.

  4. Update the database for all existing NDMP hosts in your environment. Use the command that is shown to update the database.

    tpautoconf - verify NDMP_host_name

  5. Update or replace any storage units that use the node names of the cluster to use the cluster LIF.
  6. Update or replace any existing policies that back up the cluster.

    You must use either the Data LIF or the Cluster-management LIF as the client name. NetBackup does not support the use of the node name for the client name. The backup selections may also need to be modified.

  7. Add an intercluster management LIF for each node that does not host a cluster management LIF.

    The NetApp cluster requires this activity to perform NDMP 3 way or NDMP Remote backups. Without these LIFs, all 3 way or remote backups from the volumes that are not hosted on the same node as the cluster management LIF fail.

  8. To restore, verify, or duplicate the old images, you may have to use alternate read host.

Additional changes required for NetApp clusters in Vserver aware mode

  1. Run tpautoconf command on each Vserver. This command must be run from the media servers that have credentials to the Vserver.

    tpautoconf - verify ndmp_host

    Once the command runs successfully, the output of the nbemmcmd should look similar to the following:

    servername1@/>nbemmcmd -listsettings -machinename machinename123 -
machinetype ndmp
NBEMMCMD, Version: 7.7
The following configuration settings were found:
NAS_OS_VERSION="NetApp Release 8.2P3 Cluster-Mode"
NAS_CDOT_BACKUP="1"
Command completed successfully.
 
NAS_OS_VERSION displays the NetApp Version.
NAS_CDOT_BACKUP tells us if NetBackup uses the new cDOT capabilities.

    The tpautoconf - verify ndmp_host command is not required when a new Vserver is added.

  2. Add devices to the NDMP cluster as necessary and access them using the cluster management LIF. As you add devices, you must discover the devices.
  3. Add storage units for the newly discovered devices.
  4. Update any existing policies that back up the cluster.

    You must use either the Data LIF or the Cluster-management LIF as the client name. NetBackup does not support the use of the node name for the client name. The backup selections may also need to be modified.