Dan,

You don't need to upgrade all your clients, in fact you don't even need 
to upgrade your media servers. Just upgrade the master (yes you need the 
pbx part of ICS installed first) and don't forget to run nbpushdata 
afterwards.

Good luck

James

Dan Dobbs wrote:
> Greetings, list. 
>
> Here's my situation. I have a HP-UX media/master server on 5.1 with a
> newer Neo SDLT bot and an ancient DLT4000 Surestore bot. We're going to
> be getting a shiny new Red Hat box soon to take over migrate backup
> services.
>
> I've just read the upgrade docs for 6.0, and I have to say that I'm a
> little overwhelmed. If I read it right, an upgrade to 6 requires all the
> clients to get the security software installed and upgraded to 6 as well
> before they can get backed up, something I'm not sure I can accomplish
> in a day.
>
> In short, I'm considering leaving my HP-UX box at 5.1, and building the
> new RH box on 6. My plan was to remove the Neo SDLT juke out of the 5.1
> environment, plug it into my RH box,and import tapes there (as we've
> used less than 30 SDLT's, it shouldn't be a huge deal). This would allow
> me to do the icky client-side upgrades piecemeal, as I moved them to
> 6.0, they would then back up to the new box. Eventually, as all the
> clients moved over, I could then move the old jukebox and stop
> operations on the HP-UX box. 
>
> The obvious problem is recovery; until I import every single tape, I
> wouldn't know what tapes had backups from the 'old' system. 
>
> I guess the thrust of the matter is:
>
> 1) Is the upgrade of an in-place 5.1 server to 6 easier than it reads
> on paper?
> 1a) Do I really have to upgrade my clients to 6 before the server will
> talk to them?
> 2) If I was running 6 on the 'old' system, could I follow the previous
> advice, and move /usr/openv/netbackup/db and 
> /usr/openv/volmgr/database, run the proper vmglob and bpmedia commands
> on the new box and be done?
>
> Thanks again for all your help!
>
> -dd
>
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