Preinstall procedure for upgrading clients to NetBackup 11.2
Use the procedure that is shown to upgrade your clients to NetBackup 11.2.
Several tools are available to help you perform the extra step that is required for the guided method. For more details, contact your Business Critical Services (BCS) representative.
Additional steps are required if the NetBackup upgrade includes an upgrade to RHEL 7.5 and you use Fibre Transport Media Server (FTMS). More information is available.
See About NetBackup 11.2 support for Fibre Transport Media Server with RHEL 7.5 and later.
Preinstall steps to upgrade clients to NetBackup 11.2
- Perform environment checks with the SORT tool.
- Be sure that all operating system and security updates are applied.
- Perform any pre-upgrade tasks that you would normally do in regard to your NetBackup clients. For example:
Disable antivirus software.
If the antivirus software cannot be disabled, you should exclude NetBackup files and folders from virus scan events. More information about excluding NetBackup files and folders is available.
Stop all customized or third-party scripts.
- (Conditional) If you plan to change your NetApp cluster to Vserver mode from node scope mode, create a detailed image report for each filer. You can generate this report with the bpimagelist command. The example that is shown is one possible option. Use whatever options are necessary for your environment.
bpimagelist - client ndmp_host_name
- Stop any applications on the system that interact with NetBackup. This step includes any databases or system components being backed up. Failure to stop these applications may result in unexpected behavior. Observed behavior includes aborted upgrades and application failures.
For Oracle users, ensure that no backups are running. Stop the RMAN processes before you install NetBackup. If you use AIX, you should run /usr/bin/slibclean as the root user after you stop the RMAN processes.
If you cannot stop your Oracle database, a procedure is available that may let you install NetBackup with the Oracle database active. More information on this topic is available.
- Stop all NetBackup services.
On UNIX and Linux systems: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bp.kill_all
On Windows systems: install_path\NetBackup\bin\bpdown -f
The preinstall procedure is completed. Proceed to upgrade the NetBackup binaries, based on your platform. More information is available about this topic.
See Performing local, remote, or clustered server upgrades on Windows systems.
See Upgrading UNIX and Linux clients with the NetBackup upgrade script.
See Upgrade of the UNIX and Linux client binaries with native installers.
See About VxUpdate.