Seconded on the cluster stuff.  We upgraded from 4.5 to 5.1 a couple years ago, and the changes for a clustered environment were significant.  We have a support contract with Veritas, and made use of it for that upgrade.  They sent me a pdf document that contained lessons tech support learned from others doing that upgrade.  That document was of tremendous assistance in that upgrade.  I’m preparing to upgrade our test environment from 5.1 to 6.0MP4 next week.  The key here is *preparation* -- don’t even consider doing the upgrade without investing the time to be thoroughly prepared.

 

 

Abhishek,

 

One important thing to be aware of is cluster configuration.  If your master server is clustered, this may be a much hardeer upgrade and you may really want to look at consulting.  Version 5.1 and above significantly changed the way NBU works with clustered master servers.  I don't know if you are clustered or not, but something to really watch for.

 

 

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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6 upgrade - special policy types

Hi All,

   We are upgrading our environment from Netbackup 4.5 to 6.0, Can someone please provide me the steps that i need to follow for the upgradation.
Thanks in Advance.
Rgds
Abhishek

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OK we’re getting ready to do upgrade from 5.1 to 6.0 mid-June.  

I’ve seen all the notes about being sure to clean up catalogs etc… and my coworker who is planning the upgrade has run the nbcc and done all sorts of other preparations.

My question is does anyone know of any special actions that need to be taken for backups such as:

Exchange

Oracle RMAN

Microsoft SQL

If you only know information about one of the above please provide that – I’d just like to be sure there’s nothing we’re missing on these things especially since the latter two at least are typically initiated from client side._______________________________________________
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