Re: [Veritas-bu] Lets hear about your upgrade experience! 5.x - 6.5
2008-03-10 17:13:49
ok, so we found an interesting issue now with our upgrades. Right now our master/media server is experiencing issues with hot catalog backups (to tape). Here are some interesting, fun facts:
1. our master server is an aix box with multiple interfaces
2. its an upgrade from 5.1mp5 to 6.5.1 3. everything BUT catalog works just peachy 4. Error codes in include 252 (800), and 134.
Anyone have this problem out there?
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:31 AM, rascal < rascal1981 AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
We are going through the upgrade process right now (5.1 to 6.5.1. on multiple servers/clients spanning aix5, solaris9/10, w2k3). So far we have run into a couple of hiccups:
1. DB inconsistency: Call Symantec!!! Save your sanity, lol!
2. If you have multiple interfaces that you are using (pub, private, backup, extra, etc...) keep an eye on this as this caused some issues with our configuration and forced us to rollback to 5.1 at one site to resolve (simply rebuilding the device base and re-inventory the library).
3. VxSS: nno issues thus far... 4. Catalog backup change: We noticed that the EMM becomes "unavailable" during a backup; anyone else see this or this part of the new approach that netbackup is taking with catalogs?
Other than that, everything seems to be running good. Anyone else?
We upgraded our environment a couple of weeks ago, from
5.1 to 6.5.1. Follow the instructions, and make sure you have a call open
with Symantec well in advance so you can run all the database consistency checks
and pass the results back and forth to Symantec to resolve any issues with media
- we went through several cycles of this. This environment is Solaris
9 / Solaris 10 with 1 master and 4 media servers, 2 Spectralogic libraries with
LTO2/LTO3 tapes & encryption. Solaris & Windows
clients.
Issues during the upgrade :
-
Still had problems with some LTO1 tapes imported from
a previous environment. Easily resolved with a call to
Symantec.
-
Couldn't automatically upgrade the Solaris clients
without going to them all to create a symlink for gzip and gunzip, easily
resolved but a bit naff.
-
Ongoing issues with Advanced Client where I can't get
the snapctl driver to work at all (Solaris). See separate
posting.
thanks, Phil
Sent: 04 March 2008 15:35
Id be interested to hear if anyone had a plan of action
from any NBU upgrade - I will be doing 5.1 to 6.5.1
Si
Hi all, I am interested in hearing about any of the upgrades
that you have done, mainly going from 5.x to 6.5 There seem to be
quite a few environments (in my area) that are looking to upgrade, and I am
putting together some documentation that asks questions to better prepare for
it. I am still learning the ropes of NBU but I have a lot of experience
with the server side of things especially Sun and AIX systems with SAN
storage. I have the Symantec upgrade guide "Upgrading to Veritas
Netbackup 6.5" and it appears to be pretty detailed, but it just covers the
steps to get from point A to point B. Some of the things I am interested in
finding out: - is there anyway to estimate how long step X might
take? I realize that there are so many variables that it is not
possible to say "popluating the EMM will take X hours" but if enough
people chime in on what their experience was like, maybe we can come up
with an average - have there been any show stoppers that were
unanticipated? We could all learn from this, knowing what questions to ask
up front based on our past...er...challenges. NBU has so many options and
is such a broad product that I doubt any two environments are identical.
Just sort of brain storming here, looking forward to hearing
(seeing?) what you all have to share. If we get a good dialog going I will
attempt to compile it into something usable and post it back here.
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