[Veritas-bu] Maintenance Pack NB_45_5_M install BEST PRACTICES

Bobby,

We always:
         shutdown all netbackup processes 
         tar cvf /largedir/openv.tar  ./usr/openv/*

before we do upgrades. 

I have had to restore from this type of tar file and it works perfectly on the 
same system/hardware/library that it was made on. You can then whack away at 
all the /installpath/openv/stuff you want and you'll have a quick way out. 
Remember that this tar file will contain your database, so it could be big - 
ours, for example, is several gigabytes.
    
Mickey Baker

-----Original Message-----
From: Bobby Ramirez <BobbyR AT belkin DOT com>
Sent: Nov 21, 2003 11:08 AM
To: "Veritas-Bu (E-mail)" <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Maintenance Pack NB_45_5_M install BEST PRACTICES

Believe it or not we have not applied any maintenance packs since upgrading to 
4.5.

I am looking for samples of "best practices" for installing NB Maint patches. 
We have a Sun 2.8 server as the Master, and also functions as a media server. 
Have 2 other Sun media servers, and 2 HP-UX media servers. The veritas 
documentation just mentions running, 
/bin/sh Vrts_pack.install,  then update the clients using update_clients, etc. 
Not much on their site about backing up the previous install or catalog via an 
OS backup, or coping it somewhere. Or how to recover from a back upgrade. 
I asume the Master/Media server should be done first, then the other media 
servers, then the clients. Is the update_clients script smart enough to what 
needs to be updated on a media server? I would just like more head-up, and 
gotchas kind of information.

Bobby Ramirez
UNIX Systems Administrator

Belkin Corporation
Information Services
310 604-2068
310 604-2022 fax
www.belkin.com


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