08-23-2021 09:43 PM
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
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08-24-2021 12:23 AM
What I would do:
08-23-2021 11:10 PM
there is not information about redhat 7.9 in 7.7 compatibility list as end of support for 7.7.x start at 2019-05-05.
The latest release for Redhat back then was 7.5 and was supported with 7.7.3.
I guess that 7.7.1 will not play well with 7.9. You may have some chances to work with 7.7.3 if you upgrade netbackup.
I suggest you to go with the later supported redhat
08-24-2021 12:23 AM
What I would do:
08-24-2021 03:10 PM
Hi @serg2002
I'd approach this a different way.
I would upgrade the existing master server to an intermediate version supported by my existing OS and also the new OS. This keeps everything in a supported configuration and if you run into trouble you will have a better support experience than attempting to run an unsupported configuration. Then once the migration is completed to the new hardware upgrade to my final version.
Cheers
David
08-24-2021 05:29 PM
Hi Nicolai,
Thank you for the answer. I would like to ask you more questions if you don't mind.
- "Do no move production load from old setup". Do you mean do not run any backup jobs? All our backup jobs start at night time, so it should not be a problem.
- "so ensure the new environment host cannot resolve the live environment." As I mentioned all backup jobs start at night, so I guess even if both old and new server will be online, client will still not try to contact backup server. Please correct me if I am missing anything.
- "Quick regression test that Netbackup on the net platform work". I didn't understand that. What exactly did you mean? What needs to be tested? Just a quick test of basic NetBackup functionality? Is anything in particular I need to test to be sure NetBackup functioning properly? Our set up is pretty basic. One master server, one tape library, just standard backups from NFS shares, no NDMP, no attached storages.
- "Test the upgrade to Netbackup 8.X / 9.X (it will not go smooth first time)" Why will it not go smooth?
- I know about keeping the same hostname, but I think IP address can be different, correct?
Thank you
08-24-2021 05:31 PM
Hi David,
Thank you for the reply
That is a good option, I was thinking about it. But what confuses me is if anything goes wrong with upgrading the current old version, I can be in a big trouble. Old version will be ruined, and I am not sure if I get any support since I will upgrade from not supported version. And I will finally need to install and recover old version.
I actually like Nicolai's idea of migrating the existing version to new hardware and upgrading it right away.
Do you think if will not work? Thank you
08-24-2021 05:43 PM
Hi @serg2002
I understand you concern and it is valid one - if you have sufficient hardware you could clone the current master to new hardware and test with that.
My concern with @Nicolai 's plan is that is running on an untested configuration. It may well work and is worth testing.
To answer some of your questions to Nicolai
David
08-25-2021 03:06 AM - edited 08-25-2021 03:15 AM
Hi @serg2002
First thanks to @davidmoline for clarifying. Couldn't do it better myself :)
Let me know if you have more questions Serg . You can tag people in a post by typing @ and then the user name as displayed. A tagging will notify the user a new comment has been added to a thred.
And by the way, the command you are looking for copy data from old to new environment is called rsync. Please take notice of the --delete option.
Have a great day !
08-25-2021 05:24 PM
Thank you Nicolai and @davidmoline
Sorry for having more questions.
- "Copy everything from the old master/media server to the new platform.", "the command you are looking for copy data from old to new environment is called rsync". Do you mean rsync the whole /usr/openv folder to the new machine? I was going to install a fresh NB copy, restore catalog and then copy some files that are different (touch files, notify scripts if they are different) from old server to new one.
- It looks like our old server was installed with at least version 7.0 initially, maybe even v.6
I've found the log file for v.7. For the master server name it has string: "Would you like to use "servername" as the configured name of the NetBackup server? [y,n] (y) y"
I tried to do a test NB install and v.7.7.1 during installation uses domain name by default and the same string looks like: "Would you like to use "servername.domainname.com" as the configured NetBackup server name of this machine? [y,n] (y)"
Do I need to answer No in the question above? Will it be a problem if I answer Yes? Or domain name doesn't matter at all? If I run hostname command on the old server it gives me servername.domainname.com
- "Upgrade not going smoothly - experience tells us that it doesn't always go as expected". As a first step I was thinking it would be better for me just upgrade to version 7.7.3 to match NB version and supported OS version. And after a while upgrade to higher version. Will upgrading from 7.7.1 to 7.7.3 also can potentially cause problems or it usually goes smoothly?
- Will it be better to upgrade to v.8.1 first and then, having Veritas support, upgrade to v.9.1? Maybe I am wrong, but I just think that 7.7.1(3) -> 8.1 is theoretically safer for upgrade than 7.7.1(3) -> 9.1
Thank you.
08-25-2021 07:22 PM
Hi @serg2002
My responses:
Cheers
David
08-25-2021 08:57 PM
Hi David, @Nicolai
- "Rsync - first install NetBackup (to the same location), then use rsync to replicate the entire /usr/openv folder." To be honest, I never thought about this option. Does this mean that I can completely skip running storage device configuration wizard and catalog backup recovery? I guess so, since when I rsync everything, the new machine will have the exact clone on NB and all databases and configs. The only concern if the installation script does any compilation of executables or libraries? Or it just installs pre-compiled modules?
- May I migrate OpsCenter the same way? I mean install it first with ./install and then rsync all folders?
Or it's better to do it this way: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100047057
08-25-2021 09:46 PM
Hi @serg2002
The rsync option is a good one and yes does remove the need to configure storage devices and catalog recovery. The one drawback is that you will end up with all the baggage from the past installs etc. rather than a clean install which you recover into. The installation script installs pre-compiled binaries and libraries (as well as setting up the configuration. Of course you will have to have NetBackup shutdown on the source master for the final rsync to enable you to copy the DB files in a sane state. This process is slightly more complicated once you get beyond 8.1 due to security certificates and the web services user, but if done carefully can work. Please note that the official supported way to migrate to new hardware is via the catalog backup/recovery process - so use at your own risk.
I've not tried this with OpsCenter but don't see why it wouldn't work. That said OpsCenter is very simple to migrate to new hardware - all you really need are the database files and there is a documented process to do this). For instance: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/91541840-127431414-0/v91990378-127431414 and https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100047057
Cheers
David
08-27-2021 10:31 AM
Thank you David and @Nicolai