serg2002
4 years agoLevel 3
Installing NetBackup 7.7.1 on Red Hat 7.9
Hi,
I am migrating NetBackup 7.7.1 to new hardware and then planning to upgrade NetBackup.
I am planning to install Red Hat 7.9 on the new server. I am confused with Veritas SORT note: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Update 5 and later support began in NetBackup 7.7.3 ". Does that mean that NetBackup Master and Media servers will not work properly on RH 7.9 or NetBackup will not be supported if it's installed on RH 7.9?
Thank you
What I would do:
- Create new master and media servers with RH 7.9 (it unsupported but may work)
- Copy everything from the old master/media server to the new platform. You will have to re-use the old master server name, so ensure the new environment host cannot resolve the live environment.
- Do no move production load from old setup
- Quick regression test that Netbackup on the net platform work (again make sure client and master/media server cannot resolve the "live" environment).
- Test the upgrade to Netbackup 8.X / 9.X (it will not go smooth first time)
- At the big day perform everything above again - except regression test. Sync IP and hostnames so new environment takes over the old environments IP.
- And if everything blows up during upgrade at the big day - you still have the original environment untouched.