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Scott
Does not
sound too bad to me - well done.
Can I
just ask what is the size of the DB on the Master Server - its just so I can get
an idea roughly how long my environent may take
Thanks,
Simon
I've done two upgrades in the last two weeks, one Windows and one Linux
Master.
Pulling and working from several document sources had my desk looking
like I was trying to cram for a test so I created an internal checklist in
an attempt to consolidate everything I believed was needed for the
upgrade. For DR purposes, use by other staff, and because Management
loves documentation I spent more time than usual in creating this check list
which is attached.
My stagging upgrade environment: W2K 5.1 MP60A Master, 4 SuSE 9 SP3
Media Servers - 5.1 MP6, 1 P2000 and P3000 Library, Remote Media Host and
SSO.
Both upgrades went well, but each had caveats, here is the Windows
upgrade summary:
1. Much preparation, including the on line and off line help from
Symantec (see doc).
2. Windows upgrade ok, nbpushdata completed with soft errors (3 1/2 hrs for
the push).
3. Linux upgrade ok, nbpushdata very fast. Only issue was with the media
install times, using our own script, we changed that from 35 to 7 minutes
(see doc).
4. Three Post upgrade issues with Windows, only one with Linux. I suggest
one might review note #5 for the Linux post upgrade issue (see doc for all post
upgrade issues and notes).
My worst upgrade experience was from 4.x to 5.x which sounded similar in
pain for those who went from 5.x to 6.0. All in all, this one went well and I'm
more at ease about upgrading our other production systems later in April.
I think Tony posted early about a Hot Backup problem with error
code 800, we also encountered that problem, but in our case when we obtained the
solution from Symantec we could no longer duplicate the error. That
solution was:
SOLUTION/WORKAROUND:
Stopped services
Renamed the SYNC file in Netbackup\db\config
Started services
Reconfigured Off-line catalog
REFERENCE:
As mentioned by others, I would highly recommend a fallback plan and use it
as a test environment for a 6.5 pre-install to get an idea of what you'll
run into when you upgrade your production systems.
PLEASE, don't consider the attached anything more than my checklist
based on my experience (here it comes), so the disclaimer is use at your own
risk - I guarantee your experience will be different.
Scott
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