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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ CloudPoint Install and Upgrade Guide
  3. Section II. CloudPoint maintenance
  4. Upgrading CloudPoint
  5. Preparing to upgrade CloudPoint
Veritas NetBackup™ CloudPoint Install and Upgrade Guide

Preparing to upgrade CloudPoint

Note the following before you upgrade

  • Ensure that the CloudPoint instance, virtual machine, or physical host meets the requirements of the CloudPoint version 9.0.

    See Meeting system requirements.

  • When you upgrade CloudPoint, all the snapshot data and configuration data from your previous version is maintained in the external /cloudpoint data volume. This information is external to the CloudPoint container and the image and is preserved during the upgrade.

    However, you can take a backup of all the data in the /cloudpoint volume, if desired.

    See Backing up CloudPoint.

  • Ensure that no jobs are running on CloudPoint.

    • If you are using NetBackup Web UI, disable the CloudPoint server and wait for all the in-progress jobs to complete. Use the nbstlutil command to cancel all the pending SLP operations. Use one of the following commands:

      • To cancel the pending SLP operation for a specific image, use nbstlutil cancel -backupid <value>

      • To cancel the pending SLP operation for images that belong to specific lifecycle, use nbstlutil cancel -lifecycle <name>

    • If you are using NetBackup Administration console (Java UI), on the NetBackup master server, run the following command to stop all NetBackup processes:

      • UNIX: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bp.kill_all

      • Windows: install_path\NetBackup\bin\bpdown -f

  • After you upgrade CloudPoint, if required you can upgrade the NetBackup master server. Also, you must enable the CloudPoint server from NetBackup Web UI.

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