One thing to keep in mind that it is critical to go through the steps of 
running catalog consistency tests.  I had tons of problems with this (100+ GB 
catalog space).  And never got the catalog into a state that we could actually 
upgrade our 5.1 MP7 in place.  It would have taken us an estimate 4 - 5 days of 
downtime to actually complete the upgrade.  The catch was having to go through 
Symantec support to check and fix any catalog inconsistencies.  That was a 
tedious process (run the test, send the output, receive a fix file, run the fix 
file, repeat, repeat, repeat).  Every time I would get to a consistent state, I 
ran out of my upgrade window.

I ended up creating a new environment running NBU 6.5.3 and migrating media 
servers and clients over.  I'm just now finishing that up after 8 weeks of 
effort.  Should be done by the end of this month.  Oh, and I've been 
consolidating the long retention period data on the 5.1 environment to tapes 
that I can then import into the 6.5 environment.


Dave Markham wrote:
> I'm currently running NBU 5.0 MP7 On Solaris 9 on an E220R
> 
> End goal is to get to NBU 6.5.4 on Solaris 10 on a new T5220.
> 
> Network based clients, mix of Win200, Win2003, Solaris 8
> 
> My upgrade path is going to be as follows. Does anyone see any issues 
> with this?
> 
> Build Sol10 on new box
> Install NBU 5.0GA on new box
> Install MP7 for 5.0 on new box (solaris 10 aware)
> Backup catalogues on old box
> Transfer and recover catalogues on new box.
> Install new box and connect to existing tape library etc
> --- Should now having running NBU 5.0 MP7 on new T5220 with Sol10 ---
> Upgrade to NBU 6.5
> Install 6.5.4 patch.  ( i assume 6.5.4 is not released as a full 
> version. I can't see to find that info out ).
> 
> The questions i have is :-
> 
> 1. From reading the release guide and all the cross references i see 
> there are patches required for Solaris 8 for NBU6.5. I couldn't see any 
> patches needed for Solaris 10. My question is are these patches only 
> relevant for the server software? I.E I dont need to patch all my 
> clients with the Sol8 OS patches in the NBU 6.5 release guide?
> 
> 2. Is it possible to restore catalogues taken from NBU 5 onto a new 
> system with NBU 6.5.4 ? I know the cats are different, but was just 
> wondering if i could shorten my upgrade path by using NBU 5 catalogue 
> tapes and restoring them onto a newly installed 6.5.4 version.
> 
> Cheers
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