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?

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Weber, Philip <Philip.Weber AT egg DOT com> wrote:

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

 

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From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external)

Sent: 04 March 2008 15:35

To: Tony T.; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Lets hear about your upgrade experience! 5.x - 6.5

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

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From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Tony T.
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 3:32 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Lets hear about your upgrade experience! 5.x - 6.5

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.

T.



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