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Re: [Networker] Patch upgrade advice?
2010-03-22 12:45:33
Francis Swasey wrote:
Yup, that's really it.
When you get to your first step 4, I'd shutdown NetWorker on the primary before
the storage
node, and in step 7, start it on the storage node before the primary.
I always thought it was the other way around. In other words, it seems
that the primary would have to be running before the snode can see it?
Then again, come to think of it, the snode doesn't launch any nsrmmd
processes for the drives until the server poles it anyway.
As you are already running 7.5.1, there is no new upgrade enabler to put in.
Your tape library should survive the process just fine -- unless there is a bug
with the
library handling that is why you are doing this upgrade.
May I ask why you are installing this cumulative patch set instead of upgrading
to 7.5sp2?
I guess we were just heading along that line since that's what we
started with, and we had a case with EMC on a related matter, and they
suggested that and worked with us to provide it. I do see that 7.5SP2 is
available for download but no longer SP1. I assume that 7.5.1 refers to
SP1 and 7.5.2 refers to SP2?
I now see that they have 7.6. Sheesh! The world is passing us by fast.
As Ferris said, "Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around
once in a while, you could miss it"
George
Frank
On 3/21/10 8:28 PM, George Sinclair wrote:
Hi,
We're getting ready to install a NW patched version (7.5.1.9) for Linux.
Our current version is 7.5.1 on Linux. We received the patch install
from EMC. This looks to be the same gzipped tar distribution, i.e. the
client, the node, the server, etc. as on the older CD media kit, but
with different sizes, dates and checksums - natch. I remember in the
past with older releases that we'd get specific binary replacements, but
this is the whole thing, I guess.
Are there any particular steps that we should follow to install this?
I assume this will be done same as usual upgrade, but it's been a long
time since I've run an upgrade for NW. We did a fresh install for our
current release.
1. Make a backup of the server
2. Save bootstrap info
3. Stop nmc (runs on primary)
4. Shut down NW on snode and primary server
4. Uninstall current release on primary in order (serv, node, clnt, manpg)
5. Uninstall current release on snode in order (node, clnt, manpg)
5. Install new patched release on primary in order (clnt, node, serv,
manpg)
6. Install new patched release on snode in order (clnt, node, manpg)
7. Restart NW on primary and snode
8. Restart nmc
That it???
We're not using the license manager. I assume we won't need any kind of
update enabler? I assume that the install won't touch anything under
/nsr/res; /nsr/index or /nsr/mm ????
Our tape library is on the snode only. Will we need to reconfigure our
tape library?
Will probably install the patch client on all our clients, too.
Thanks.
George
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