Whoops - missed this reply before sending my last one out.

The update is very easy, but don't forget to run "nbpushdata -add" on 
the master afterwards, else your EMM will be empty and you'll have no 
storage units or media.

Cheers
James

Greenberg, Katherine A wrote:

>The Media Manager stuff is the only part that has changed. 
>
>From how everything was explained to me...
>They pulled everything onto the Master, so the issues with SSO and vmd,
>etc. will go away because there will be one host assigning drives and
>allocating media for the entire environment, as opposed to each media
>server running it's own database. The communication between Master and
>Media servers will also be nowhere near as chatty, since the only time
>communication will happen is the sending of meta-data for backups and
>the assignation of backup drive and media allocation to the media
>server.
>
>The netbackup database (/usr/openv/netbackup/db/*) will not change at
>all from it's current format (binary for the .f files and flat for the
>image info files). The media manager database
>(/usr/openv/volmgr/database/*) will become Sybase.
>
>Has anyone done this upgrade yet? How easy/painful is it?
>
>~Kate
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Piszcz, Justin [mailto:jpiszcz AT servervault DOT com] 
>Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 9:07 AM
>To: Greenberg, Katherine A; Ed Wilts; List Veritas List
>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Resource requirements for NBU 6?
>
>
>I realize that, but I was wondering how it stored the lists in the
>database by default, as it is not a plain text OR flat file anymore.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Greenberg, Katherine A [mailto:GreenbergKA AT aetna DOT com] 
>Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 9:06 AM
>To: Piszcz, Justin; Ed Wilts; List Veritas List
>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Resource requirements for NBU 6?
>
>You can compress the images catalog in the same manner that you could in
>previous versions.
>
>Is that what you're asking?
>
>~Kate
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Piszcz, Justin [mailto:jpiszcz AT servervault DOT com] 
>Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 8:22 AM
>To: Greenberg, Katherine A; Ed Wilts; List Veritas List
>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Resource requirements for NBU 6?
>
>
>Does NBU 6 use compression on the databases (vs. flat files) - I have a
>box with 50,000,000+ files, the flatfiles are huge.  Anyone know?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Greenberg,
>Katherine A
>Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 7:04 AM
>To: Ed Wilts; List Veritas List
>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Resource requirements for NBU 6?
>
>From everything I've heard/read, the memory requirements are higher, but
>not sure about CPU. Since all of the Media Manager stuff is running on
>the Master and all the db info for the device and media side of things
>will be housed only on the master in a Sybase DB, the new req's are
>based on that. Obviously it requires more system resources to run a real
>relational database as opposed to the old NBU flat file method.
>
>~Kate
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
>Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 3:57 PM
>To: List Veritas List
>Subject: [Veritas-bu] Resource requirements for NBU 6?
>
>
>I've heard that NetBackup 6 takes a fair bit more memory than 5.  Has
>anyone seen any Veritas documentation that supports this?  How about CPU
>requirements?
>
>Thanks,
>        .../Ed
>  
>


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