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[Veritas-bu] Differences between Netbackup 5.x and 6.x

2006-12-11 18:56:02
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Differences between Netbackup 5.x and 6.x
From: ewilts at ewilts.org (Ed Wilts)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:56:02 -0600
On 12/11/2006 9:13 AM, Hesham.AFIFI at sgcib.com wrote:
> I am looking at the main difference between Veritas Netbackup 5.x and 
> 6.x before doing the upgrade, can someone help with that

Off the top of my head...

1.  Scalability issues were addressed throughout.  Multi-threaded 
operations in many places.  Yes, there really are customers that have 
environments with over 100 media servers...

2.  The media and device information has been moved from the media 
servers to the master server.  This is part of what is causing a lot of 
the issues for people upgrading because their distributed databases were 
not consistent.  This needs to be fixed *before* you upgrade.  If you 
did some unsupported things like decommision media servers improperly or 
have multiple media servers think they own the same tape, there's 
nothing that NetBackup can do to help - you'll need to manually clean 
things up yourself.  Going forward, the media servers can now focus on 
being just data movers.

3.  NetBackup Operations Manager - a free component for reporting and 
limited operations (e.g. up or down a drive, etc.).

4.  Additional OS support - e.g. Windows 2003 64-bit and Solaris 10 for 
media servers.

5.  Hot catalog backups.  Catalog backups can now be done while 
NetBackup is running and they're scheduled like any other policy with 
expirations, consistent use of scratch pools, etc.

6.  SSO for NDMP

7.  Lots of DSSU enhancements - destage jobs have priorities now.

I'm sure that there are lots of other improvements that I'm not thinking 
of right now.  That doesn't mean that they're insignificant.

Veritas/Symantec has an upgrade portal with lots of documentation. 
Please read the docs in their entirety before you upgrade.  They're 
actually important.  Do *NOT* throw the CDs in and run the upgrade 
scripts until you've read the docs and understood what they're telling 
you.  See #2 above.

        .../Ed
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org