Veritas NetBackup™ Upgrade Guide
- Introduction
- Planning for an upgrade
- General upgrade planning information
- About upgrade tools
- Upgrade operational notes and limitations
- Creating the user account to support the NetBackup web server
- About NetBackup 8.2 support for Fibre Transport Media Server with RHEL 7.5
- MSDP changes in NetBackup 8.1
- Potential required changes for NetApp clusters
- Errors when Bare Metal Restore information is replicated using Auto Image Replication
- Upgrade issue with pre-8.1 clients and 8.1 or later media servers
- Master server upgrade
- About master server upgrades
- Preinstall procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 8.2
- Performing local, remote, or clustered server upgrades on Windows systems
- Performing silent upgrades on Windows systems
- Upgrading UNIX and Linux server software to NetBackup 8.2
- Post-install procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 8.2
- About NetBackup startup and shutdown scripts
- Completing your system update after an upgrade
- Media server upgrade
- MSDP upgrade for NetBackup
- Client upgrade
- 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
- About RBAC bootstrapping
- Update cloud configuration file on the master server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 8.2
- 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
- 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
- Upgrading clients after servers are upgraded
About MSDP fingerprinting algorithm changes
With NetBackup 8.1, Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) introduces a more secure fingerprint algorithm. The SHA-2 algorithm replaces the existing MD5-like algorithm. NetBackup 8 .1 can handle both fingerprint types, and the new server is compatible with old clients and old servers. Conversion happens during the interaction between old clients and old servers and the new server. The fingerprint conversion requires additional computation time. The interaction between old clients and old servers and new server is slower than if both the client and the server are new.
If you have a mixed media server environment that uses both the MD5-like algorithm and the SHA-2 algorithm, the initial backup may lose deduplication ratio. Veritas recommends that you split the media servers by algorithm and create different storage units for each of them.
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