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 the NetBackup 8.2 Upgrade Guide
The NetBackup 8.2 Upgrade Guide is provided to help assist you plan and accomplish your upgrade to NetBackup 8.2. This guide is updated periodically to provide you with the most up-to-date information. You can obtain the latest version of this guide on the NetBackup 8.2 Upgrade portal, at the following link:
http://www.veritas.com/docs/000115678
The Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) is also a valuable resource for upgrade preparation. More information about SORT is available.
See About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools.
Caution:
The NetBackup 8.2 upgrade guide provides an upgrade path from NetBackup version 7.7.x and later to NetBackup 8.2. Information about required upgrade steps for older versions of NetBackup are removed from the NetBackup 8.1 and later upgrade guides. This change simplifies the upgrade procedure for customers with more current versions of NetBackup.
For a successful upgrade from older NetBackup versions directly to 8.2, you must:
Refer to the NetBackup 8.0 Release Notes to understand the changes to NetBackup.
Refer to the upgrade procedure that is listed in the NetBackup 8.0 Upgrade Guide.
Combine the upgrade steps in the NetBackup 8.0 procedure with the upgrade steps in the NetBackup 8.2 Upgrade Guide.
Veritas recommends that you refer to the NetBackup Release Notes and NetBackup Upgrade Guide for each release, not only NetBackup 8.0, for details about these earlier upgrades. These documents provide additional information about upgrade steps and the requirements that are helpful for a successful upgrade.