Topics with Label: Upgrade

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Netbackup 6 - changing IP address

We are planning a change of IP on NBU 6.0 MP4 Mixed clients, mostly Wintel & AIX, some RedHat I have a few things so far that I know I need to think about... *Client agents uses DNS reverse lookup, so if the DNS cache entry of the clients hasn't ex...

Resolved! Phased Upgrade of NBU 5.x Media Servers

Hi all When undertaking a phased upgrade of a NetBackup 5.x environment to NetBackup 6.x is there still a requirement to backup the DBs that reside on the legacy 5.x Media servers? Prior to the upgrade these databases were backed up as part of the ...

Solaris 9 & NB 5.1 to Solaris 10 & NB 6.5 Upgrade

I'm trying to decide if I should tackle this upgrade with Symantec help or get consultants to do it. I've had Netbackup in our environment since Version 3.1 so I'm fairly familiar with Netbackup's workings. Current environment: Solaris 9 Sun V440 N...

Resolved! Tape expiration in mixed Master/Media Servers environment (6.5/5.1)

Hi, I'm doing an upgrade of NetBackup to 6.5.3.1 in environment with multiple Media Servers. Master and some Media Servers are upgraded to 6.5.3.1, nbpushdata was successful etc.., and few 5.1MP7 Media Servers are waiting for upgrade. My question is...

Resolved! migrating from unix media server to windows

Hello, We are using Netbackup 6.5.3. We are planning to move our Unix media server to windows media server. Please let me know if there are any planned steps required for the same. Please suggest. Thanks

Clean install NB Client 6.0

So far, I've been moving my 5.1 clients to 6.0MP4 through upgrades, but I have yet to find on the symantec FTP site, the NB 6.0 client software (all platforms) so I can do a clean install on new servers...especially AIX. It seems I have been loading...

Resolved! Applying 6.5.3.1 patch to master more than once ...

So on my Master (HP-UX) I updated the client software to 6.5.3.1. Now I've installed more client software for Solaris, Redhat, etc ... that is at version 6.5. (So I can push it out.) Should I remove the 6.5.3/6.5.3.1 patches and re-apply, or can I j...

how to decommission a dead media server

Hi Guys, need some help on a rather old topic: we have dead media server (has been removed by some unexperienced admin long time ago) which might prevent clean an update to NBU 6.x. (all servers are on windows and NBU5.1) Fact: NBCC finds media writ...

Resolved! Windows Master and Media Servers to RHEL 5. How's and Why's

Hello, I am trying to convince management that it would be a good idea to migrate our current NetBackup servers over to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (or 6 depending on when we can implement). We currently have 1 Master Server and 6 Media Servers all r...

Mark this one!

Here is a vaulable, helpful link for NetBackup users. Save this one as it is something you will want to go back to time after time. It lists the new problems being encountered, technotes to fix thos problems, new documentation, configuration, tips an...

Management Pack 3 (6.5.3) remote push installs

I can't find the remote push install within the upadate 3 install files. I wanted to push the mp3 to my 6.5 installs but the source file seems to be missing the component. It only has the option of install to local machine. Anyone have ideas how to p...

Resolved! Compatibility: Master 6.5.3 and client 6.5.3.1

If this has already been talked about I apologize, but I thought I'd ask since I don't recall reading anything about the following in the release notes: I seem to be having problems with Full backups with windows clients that have upgraded to 6.5.3...

Is anyone using NetBackup LUA (Live Update Agent)...

1) Does it work? 2) Is it any good? 3) The examples in the manual are particularly weak, and the recent tech note for configuraing a Windows LU server is not at all secure. Does anyone have any tips on how to do it properly? Master: Solaris 10, VC...

Resolved! For whoever at Symantec looks after the v6.5 Upgrade Portal...

...your link to: Veritas NetBackup (tm) 5.x to NetBackup 6.5 Upgrade Guide, Version "D" (updated March 6, 2009) ...i.e.: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/290141.htm ...still goes to the version "C" document. Sighs...

Upgrade to 6.5 ---- SSO concerns

Hi all, my backup servers are on NBU 5.1 MP7, we want to upgrade our env from 5.1 to 6.5. The upgrade is planned for the master first, then after a week we do the media server My concern is that, will there be any issue regarding the way the drives w...

Duplication of NDMP disk image to tape would fail with a status 191 error

Hi - We have just recently upgraded from NetBackup 5.1 to 6.5.3. For several days now, I have a DSSU job that occurs 5am daily. I realize that one on these jobs have status/error 191. I verified the Detailed Status and went to the file in question. I...

NetBackup 6.5.3.1 - Not retrying

I recently upgraded from NBU5.1 to 6.5. I currently have "Scheduled backup attempts" set to 2 in 12 hours. I use a wrapper script to launch bpbackup -i -w 0 and trap the errors from there. In 5.1, a job would requeue with an error, return the erro...

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