My environment is very simple,  basic filesystem/system state/vss type backups, 
 We do no sql,exchange,sharepoint or vmware backups.  There are no gotcha's at 
the level I am at,  I am reading the manuals as we are planning on implementing 
exchange and vmware backups in the near future but at this time a straight up 
simple upgrade path was all that I required.  Now next year when we all go to 
version 8 or 9 I am sure I will be more diligent in preparing for the upgrade.

Doug Preston

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From: judy_hinchcliffe AT administaff DOT com [mailto:judy_hinchcliffe AT 
administaff DOT com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:08 PM
To: Preston, Douglas; VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Upgradation Steps - 6.5.5 to 7.0

I think you really should read  .... because

IF you have NBAC you need to upgrade that first before you upgrade NB
You need to move any clients that are going to stay at a level below 7.0 to 
their own policy
The Doc says you should not mix 7.0 clients with 6.5 clients in the same policy
That after you upgrade the nblog.conf will be over written and all logging 
levels will be reset to default.  So if you have different logging levels you 
should make note of them so you can put the back after the upgrade.

..and I am only on page 65 of the upgrade doc

The additional notes told me I will need the patch for the 233 ( I have 
suffered that for over 2 years)
The patch for calendar schedules on aix
The patch for dfsr
And the patch for exchange backups....
And those are just the ones that apply to my environment.

If you have NOM you need to upgrade to Ops Center, but if you do that and your 
master server is still on 6.5.x you will need to install and config an agent to 
monitor the 6.5.x server.  But if you upgrade right away you don't need the 
agent.

....They took the time to write the doc's, you should take the time to read the 
doc's.  You never know what you might find in them.

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Preston, 
Douglas
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 9:30 AM
To: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgradation Steps - 6.5.5 to 7.0

My NBU master and media servers are all windows server 2003

What I did was a very simple 7 step process,  

1 - I performed a full system backup of the master server
2 - I performed a catalog integrity check
3 - I performed a hot catalog backup
4 - I installed the upgrade on the master server
5 - I installed the upgrade on the media servers
6 - I ran a backup of 10 client machines to verify that all systems were still 
able to be backed up since I have a couple old   O/S that have to run 5.1 
version of client. 
7 - I performed restores to alternate locations of data backed up in step 6

The only issue I had was the media server that seemed to lose its settings in 
the EMM database after upgrading the master server.  Running tpautoconf -a on 
the media server fixed this issue.


Doug Preston

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Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 11:48 PM
To: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Upgradation Steps - 6.5.5 to 7.0


Hi Forum,

Need to upgrade my setup which is on NBU 6.5.5 (Solaris) to NBU 7.0

Pls. inform/suggest the steps involved to do so.


Thanks in Advance

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