Dave
This is one process I am looking at. I take it, you chose a completely
new name for the Master ?
Simon
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 upgrade qs
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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