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Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Upgrade Guide

Last Published: 2017-12-19

Product(s): Appliances (3.1)

Introduction
1. About upgrades to NetBackup appliance software version 3.1 and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system
Upgrade planning
1. Guidelines and best practices for upgrading NetBackup appliances
  1. Upgrade time estimation
  2. Upgrade guidelines
Pre-upgrade tasks
1. Pre-upgrade tasks for appliance upgrades
Performing the upgrade
1. Methods for downloading appliance software release updates
2. Installing a NetBackup appliance software update using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
Post upgrade tasks
1. Post upgrade tasks for 3.1 upgrades
Troubleshooting
1. Troubleshooting upgrade issues

Update disk drive firmware

The preflight check for the disk drive firmware version alerts you if it detects a version that is earlier than 0006. Veritas recommends that before you upgrade the appliance software, you should first update the disk drive firmware to version 0006. This update addresses important disk drive performance issues.

Note:

An earlier disk drive firmware version does not prevent the software upgrade from proceeding. If you do not update the disk drive firmware before the appliance software upgrade, Veritas recommends that you do so immediately afterward.

For complete details about updating the disk drive firmware, refer to following tech notes:

NetBackup appliance models 5230 and 5330 with software versions 2.5 - 2.5.4
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000108370
NetBackup appliance models 5230 and 5330 with software versions 2.6.0.1 - 2.6.1.2
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000108372