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NavGee's avatar
NavGee
Level 5
11 years ago

Appliance Upgrade

What is the preferred method of upgrading the Netbackup Appliance 5220 NBU version 7.5.0.6 to Netbackup 7.6GA. Currently Code appliance code is 2.5.3 Upgrade to to 7.5.0.6 to then perform code ...
Backup and Recovery
Linux
NetBackup Appliance
  • Mark_Solutions's avatar
    Mark_Solutions
    11 years ago

    If you use the USB it completely rebuilds the appliance from scratch (totally blows everything away!!!) - so don't try that.

    You can go straight to 2.6.0.1 from your current version.

    You can either download it yourself from file connect and then open the software share and copy it over, or if the appliance has internet access you can get the appliance to download it itself.

    Do everything via the IPMI interface or a locally attached keyboard and monitor so that you can monitor the entire process.

    Also do it when you can have plenty of downtime - it can take a very long time to upgrade due to the changes in the de-dupe and the entire new O/S

    Read all of the upgrade and release notes first

    Hope this helps

TomerG's avatar
TomerG
Level 6
11 years ago

(Note that NBU 7.6GA = 7.6.0.1 as well, regarding the software versions... again when they released the generally available 7.6, they already included the 7.6.0.1 patch fixes for extra stability, and is equivalent to 2.6.0.1 on the appliance as far as functionality)