03-06-2017 11:16 AM
Hi Experts,
I want to upgrade OS of master server to windows 2012 server. Just curious, would it make any impact on installed Netbackup application ?
I want to upgrade from windows 2008 to windows 2012. Netbackup [master server] is installed on virtual machine.
Please share your thoughts.
Thanks,
dpx
03-06-2017 12:57 PM
We didn't do an upgrade but I have run Netbackup 773 as a master server on both 2008 and 2012.
03-06-2017 01:24 PM
Being in the virtual environment, wouldn't it be easier to take your time to setup the Windows 2012 Server separately and then during downtime, swap hostname/IP address of the two servers, and install/setup NetBackup on the new server?
Similar question about 2003 -> 2008 upgrade.
03-06-2017 01:25 PM
That is actually what we did. Then we could fall back to 2008 if we needed to.
03-06-2017 01:35 PM
03-06-2017 01:36 PM
We have physical master servers so that didnt apply to us.
And I dont imagine there is any license problem switching from one server to another.