NetBackup™ Upgrade Guide
- Introduction
- About the NetBackup 10.0 Upgrade Guide
- Available NetBackup upgrade methods
- About changes in NetBackup 10.0
- Windows compiler and security requirements for NetBackup 9.1 and later installation and upgrade
- Java GUI and JRE installation optional for some computers
- Logging directory permissions require reset on rollback
- Upgrades from NetBackup 7.6.0.4 and earlier are not supported
- External certificate authority certificates supported in NetBackup 8.2 and later
- About Veritas Usage Insights
- Best practices for Veritas Usage Insights
- Planning for an upgrade
- General upgrade planning information
- About planning a NetBackup 10.0 upgrade
- How to plan for an upgrade to NetBackup 10.0
- Legacy logging directory security update
- Notifications, Messages, and Resiliency configuration information are not upgraded
- Known catalog backup limitation
- About security certificates for NetBackup hosts
- About automatic file changes from an upgrade
- Reduce the job database size before upgrade
- Known SUSE Linux primary server upgrade issue
- About upgrade tools
- Upgrade operational notes and limitations
- Creating the user account to support the NetBackup web server
- About NetBackup 10.0 support for Fibre Transport Media Server with RHEL 7.5 and later
- MSDP changes in NetBackup 8.1
- Potential required changes for NetApp clusters
- Errors when Bare Metal Restore information is replicated using Auto Image Replication
- Upgrade issue with pre-8.1 clients and 8.1 or later media servers
- General upgrade planning information
- Primary server upgrade
- About primary server upgrades
- Preinstall procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 10.0
- Performing local, remote, or clustered server upgrades on Windows systems
- Performing silent upgrades on Windows systems
- Upgrading Linux server software to NetBackup 10.0
- Silently upgrading NetBackup primary server software on Linux
- Post-install procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 10.0
- About NetBackup startup and shutdown scripts
- Completing your system update after an upgrade
- Media server upgrade
- MSDP upgrade for NetBackup
- Client upgrade
- NetBackup Deployment Management with VxUpdate
- Appendix A. Reference
- NetBackup master server web server user and group creation
- Generate a certificate on the inactive nodes of a clustered master server
- About the NetBackup Java Runtime Environment
- Add or Remove Java GUI and JRE after upgrade
- About the NetBackup web user interface
- About the NetBackup answer file
- Persistent Java Virtual Machine options
- About RBAC bootstrapping
- About NetBackup software availability
- Additional post-upgrade steps for NetApp clusters
- Using NetApp disk arrays with Replication Director
- About compatibility between NetBackup versions
- Upgrade requirements for UNIX and Linux
- Installation and upgrade requirements for Windows and Windows clusters
- Requirements for Windows cluster installations and upgrades
- Removing a clustered media server by migrating all data to a new media server
- Disabling the connection between your OpsCenter server and your NetBackup Primary Server
- Post upgrade procedures for Amazon cloud storage servers
- Upgrading clients after servers are upgraded
- Upgrade failure rollback steps
- Index
Disabling the connection between your OpsCenter server and your NetBackup Primary Server
If you need to upgrade your NetBackup Primary Server before you upgrade your OpsCenter server, you can disable the relationship between your primary and OpsCenter servers.
Please be aware of the limitations and potential data loss concerns related to disabling data collection:
It is not supported to collect data from the NetBackup primary server that is at a higher version than the OpsCenter server. The OpsCenter server must be at the same version or higher than the NetBackup primary server.
After the OpsCenter Data Collection is disabled for the primary server, OpsCenter does not receive any alerts or new data in the OpsCenter reports. Data that was collected before data collection was disabled is still available in the OpsCenter reports.
After you upgrade OpsCenter and enable data collection, OpsCenter receives any new alerts for the primary server and new data in the reports. OpsCenter collects data for the time when data collection was disabled only if the data is still available on the primary server. Reporting data and alerts are lost if the primary server job retention level is shorter than the time that the data collection is disabled.
To disable the connection between the primary server and the OpsCenter server
- Disable data collection in OpsCenter.
Settings > Configuration > NetBackup > NetBackup Primary Server to be upgraded > Disable Data Collection
- Upgrade the NetBackup Primary Server.
You can now operate both NetBackup and OpsCenter, but OpsCenter does not have complete data.
To enable the connection between the primary server and the OpsCenter server
- Upgrade OpsCenter.
- Enable data collection on OpsCenter once the OpsCenter upgrade completes successfully.
Settings > Configuration > NetBackup > NetBackup Primary Server to be upgraded > Enable Data Collection