[Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 upgrade qs

[Dean]

You don't NEED to patch up the clients, but obviously it's best if you can.
Sometimes, you just can't. For example, the only we we can backup a couple
of old Solaris 2.6 (yeah, not supported) clients to a 6.5.3 master server is
with the NBU 4.5 client (yeah, also no supported). Our master and media
servers are all 6.5.3, but a large proportion, probably about half, of our
clients are still running 5.1 clients. And yes, we know that if anything
breaks on the 5.1 clients (or 4.5), we probably won't be able to get support
from Symantec. If anything does happen, the first thing we will try is
upgrading the client to the same level as the master, but so far,
everything's working fine.

Cheers
Dean

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Dave Markham <dave.markham at fjserv.net>wrote:

> Actually no i'm using the same master server name which i thought would
> be best.
>
> What i've done previously when we had to install a new Sol9 OS was to
> create the new OS and build the server on identical hardware with new
> disks amd same machine name, install netbackup and recover the
> catalogues from the main server. This all worked fine.
>
> My main question is actually surrounding patches as i need to work out
> if i need any solaris 8 patches for the CLIENTS. I know my new master
> server will be solaris10 which handles multi threaded applications, but
> i can't see anywhere about client patches.
>
> Cheers
>
> WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote:
> > Dave
> > This is one process I am looking at. I take it, you chose a completely
> > new name for the Master ?
> > Simon
> >
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> > tsimerson
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> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 upgrade qs
> >
> >
> > One thing to keep in mind that it is critical to go through the steps of
> > running catalog consistency tests.  I had tons of problems with this
> > (100+ GB catalog space).  And never got the catalog into a state that we
> > could actually upgrade our 5.1 MP7 in place.  It would have taken us an
> > estimate 4 - 5 days of downtime to actually complete the upgrade.  The
> > catch was having to go through Symantec support to check and fix any
> > catalog inconsistencies.  That was a tedious process (run the test, send
> > the output, receive a fix file, run the fix file, repeat, repeat,
> > repeat).  Every time I would get to a consistent state, I ran out of my
> > upgrade window.
> >
> > I ended up creating a new environment running NBU 6.5.3 and migrating
> > media servers and clients over.  I'm just now finishing that up after 8
> > weeks of effort.  Should be done by the end of this month.  Oh, and I've
> > been consolidating the long retention period data on the 5.1 environment
> > to tapes that I can then import into the 6.5 environment.
> >
> >
> > Dave Markham wrote:
> >
> >> I'm currently running NBU 5.0 MP7 On Solaris 9 on an E220R
> >>
> >> End goal is to get to NBU 6.5.4 on Solaris 10 on a new T5220.
> >>
> >> Network based clients, mix of Win200, Win2003, Solaris 8
> >>
> >> My upgrade path is going to be as follows. Does anyone see any issues
> >> with this?
> >>
> >> Build Sol10 on new box
> >> Install NBU 5.0GA on new box
> >> Install MP7 for 5.0 on new box (solaris 10 aware) Backup catalogues on
> >>
> >
> >
> >> old box Transfer and recover catalogues on new box.
> >> Install new box and connect to existing tape library etc
> >> --- Should now having running NBU 5.0 MP7 on new T5220 with Sol10 ---
> >> Upgrade to NBU 6.5 Install 6.5.4 patch.  ( i assume 6.5.4 is not
> >> released as a full version. I can't see to find that info out ).
> >>
> >> The questions i have is :-
> >>
> >> 1. From reading the release guide and all the cross references i see
> >> there are patches required for Solaris 8 for NBU6.5. I couldn't see
> >> any patches needed for Solaris 10. My question is are these patches
> >> only relevant for the server software? I.E I dont need to patch all my
> >>
> >
> >
> >> clients with the Sol8 OS patches in the NBU 6.5 release guide?
> >>
> >> 2. Is it possible to restore catalogues taken from NBU 5 onto a new
> >> system with NBU 6.5.4 ? I know the cats are different, but was just
> >> wondering if i could shorten my upgrade path by using NBU 5 catalogue
> >> tapes and restoring them onto a newly installed 6.5.4 version.
> >>
> >> Cheers
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