One thing that might need to be paied attention to is the sg driver. i have
seen someone upgrade the OS and copy back the NBU binaries without
re-install the NBU. At this point, the sg driver was not installed at all in
the New OS. But in your scenario, I think it is fine.
Thanks
ldf
----- Original Message -----
From: "Atif Naseem" <anaseem AT vanhosp.bc DOT ca>
To: <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>; <ROBERT_JOHANNES AT udlp DOT
com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading OS on master server
>
> Hi Robert.
> See tech Notes # 232654 , quite comprehensive article on these
upgradations issues.
> regards
> atif
> >>> Robert Johannes <ROBERT_JOHANNES AT udlp DOT com> 02/18/02 03:05PM >>>
> Fellas,
> I'm going to be upgrading a master server from Solaris 2.6 to 8. I
> currently have netbackup 341_2 installed. My upgrade path kind of looks
> like this:
>
> 0. Remove the netbackup pkgs.
> 1. Deport the Vm diskgroup on which netbackup is installed.
> 2 Blow away the rootdisk and install solaris 8 from scratch.
> 3. Install vm.
> 4 Import the diskgroup that NBU is installed on.
> 5. Install netbackup pkgs and patch it to the original patch level.
> 6. Delete device configuration out of netbackup with tpconfig
> 7. Add the devices just deleted.
> 8. Put back all (or restore) the original customized scripts.
> 9. Voila!
> 10.?
>
> When I upgraded from netbackup 3.2 to 3.4, I had to remove the old
> netbackup pkgs and then installed the 3.4 packages. This was a scary
> process because for sure I thought removing nbu pkgs would also remove
> all or part of the nbu database, but all the critical database files
> were never touched, so I'm going along the same assumption that since
> the installation of solaris won't touch anything in the nbu partition,
> the critical nbu database files, will stay intact. Can anyone tell me if
> I'm missing critical steps in this list?
>
> Thanks
> robert johannes
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