Jeff,
Many thanks for the update. I have my copy of 4.5 staring at me right
now and have been hesitant to upgrade because I go on vacation Friday...
Maybe now I'll do it anyway...)
~JK
"Jeff A. Earickson" wrote:
>
> Y'all,
>
> I upgraded from Netbackup 3.4 to 4.5 on a Solaris 8 system (L20 tape
> robot) with zero problems yesterday. It went really smooth. I put the
> cdrom in, su'ed to root, ran the install script on the cdrom, followed
> the instructions, no problem. My comments about the procedure are:
>
> * the booklet you get with Veritas 4.5 isn't really useful for the actual
> upgrade, just for all the possible gotchas. You ought to read the
> book before the upgrade, but don't expect any step-by-step instructions
> for the actual install. There ought to be some!!!
>
> * For Solaris, the first thing the install script wants you to do is remove
> the prior copy of Netbackup and Volume Manager. I found this to be scary.
> I didn't want to loose my setup and catalog information. I tarred up
> my old /usr/openv directory before starting, to cover my ass. Then
> I ran pkgrm for the two packages. One question you get asked during
> the package remove is "Are you doing this remove as part of an
> upgrade?". I answered yes. I would guess that if you answer no,
> then you blow away all of your setup and catalog information too.
> The Veritas book should explain this in detail. Beware.
>
> Netbackup 4.5 gets a thumbs up. The Java GUI is much more stable than 3.4.
> With jnbSA in 3.4 I got a lot of thread exceptions and crashes; I ended
> up using bpadm a lot instead. No crashes with the GUI in 4.5. The
> calendar feature of 4.5 is a big winner. Now I can do my monthly backups
> on the first of the month without guessing when they might run.
>
> ** Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D PHONE: 207-872-3659
> ** Senior UNIX Sysadmin, Information Technology EMAIL: jaearick AT colby
> DOT edu
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