Netbackup 5.1 upgrade Oracle and informix clients

[brosseau_sylvai]

I am looking for documentation on upgrading to 5.1 the Informix and Oracle client.

The agent documentation talks about the initial install but not really how to do an upgrade. Is it possible to upgrade agents(oracle & Informix) from 4.5 to 5.1 or is it a remove and install?

[Brice_Avila_2]

Both Informix and Oracle will have new XBSA libraries, so they both will need to be relinked.

Informix
1. No need to shutdown/restart Informix
2. No need to alter the $INFORMIXDIR/etc/sm_versions file
3. No need to alter the backup/restore scripts, or the ALARMPROGRAM
4. Install the newer Informix XBSA library (i.e. "/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/infxbsa.so")
5. ln -s /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/infxbsa.so /usr/lib/ibsad001.so

Oracle
1. No need to alter the backup scripts
2. Install the newer Oracle XBSA library (i.e. "/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/libobk.so")
3. ln -s /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/libobk.so $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libobk.so
4. Shutdown/restart Oracle
5. On AIX platforms, you probably will also need to run slibclean while Oracle is shutdown

Make sure that you've checked the support matrix for both. Informix is more forgiving for an unsupported configuration than Oracle. Good luck.

Brice Avila