Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading NetBackup from 5.1 to 6.5.3

Steve

Essentially, I done an upgrade yesterday. It was not too bad - make sure your NBCC -upgrade is absolutely clean before starting.

For me, I took an image backup of the Master Server, Full Catalog Backup of Master / SAN Media Servers to disk and tape and then removed tape from the library.

Made an "offline" copy of catalog to a completely seperate disk while Services were down and Registry keys and license keys of all Master / Media Servers.

Made sure I had the 5.1 Software and MP7 to hand (just in case I had to revert).

Finally, check no backups are running during this phase.

My environment was all Windows and apart from one niggle problem to do with ltid, I had to raise a call with Symantec to get this fixed. Otherwise, its been ok.

Simon

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Jenner, Steven
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:29 PM
To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading NetBackup from 5.1 to 6.5.3

Hi All,

I am planning on upgrading my NetBackup solution this weekend from 5.1 to 6.5.3, I have followed the latest upgrade checklist and everything looks good to go.

Does anyone out there who has already performed this upgrade have any words of caution or gotcha’s that they can offer?

My solution consists of one Solaris 9 master server and two Solaris 9 media servers connected to 10 LTO2 tapes drives via fibre.

The clients are a mixture of Windows, Linux and Solaris but they will be upgraded at a later date.

Thanks in advance,

Steve.

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