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NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager Install and Upgrade Guide

Last Published: 2022-09-08

Product(s): NetBackup (10.1)

Upgrading Snapshot Manager

The following procedures describe how to upgrade your Snapshot Manager deployment. During the upgrade, you replace the container that runs your current version of Snapshot Manager with a newer container.

To upgrade Snapshot Manager server in Podman/Docker environment

Download the Snapshot Manager upgrade installer.
On the Snapshot Manager download page, click Download Now to download the Snapshot Manager installer.
The Snapshot Manager software components are available in a package form. The file name has the following format:
NetBackup_SnapshotManager_<version>.tar.gz
Note:
The actual file name may vary depending on the release version.
Copy the downloaded compressed image file to the computer on which you want to deploy Snapshot Manager.

Un-tar the image file and list the contents:

# ls
NetBackup_SnapshotManager_10.1.x.x.xxxx.tar.gz
netbackup-flexsnap-10.1.x.x.xxxx.tar.gz
flexsnap_preinstall.sh

Run the following command to prepare the Snapshot Manager host for installation:

# sudo ./flexsnap_preinstall.sh

The output resembles the following:

Executing the following changes on this node to prepare the

NetBackup Snapshot Manager for installation: 
     1) Validate SELINUX
    2) Loading Snapshot Manager service images.
9a585888b624: Loading layer [==================================================>]  24.58kB/24.58kB
2e62066f7e63: Loading layer [==================================================>]  475.2MB/475.2MB
f685725593dc: Loading layer [==================================================>]  6.144kB/6.144kB
696db75055f2: Loading layer [==================================================>]  406.4MB/406.4MB
Loaded image: veritas/flexsnap-core:10.1.0.0.1005
231ab0b2c170: Loading layer [==================================================>]  23.04kB/23.04kB
8c28932ae9d0: Loading layer [==================================================>]  98.46MB/98.46MB
Loaded image: veritas/flexsnap-certauth:10.1.0.0.1005
943d68324d6c: Loading layer [==================================================>]  32.26kB/32.26kB
191891ecc4f9: Loading layer [==================================================>]  28.47MB/28.47MB
Loaded image: veritas/flexsnap-nginx:10.1.0.0.1005
ceec3f55b2db: Loading layer [==================================================>]  284.1MB/284.1MB
Loaded image: veritas/flexsnap-idm:10.1.0.0.1005
1dea31649399: Loading layer [==================================================>]  27.14kB/27.14kB
fed7c9c63244: Loading layer [==================================================>]  195.1kB/195.1kB
085e29ab3a40: Loading layer [==================================================>]  68.61kB/68.61kB
db18b0c91f2b: Loading layer [==================================================>]   57.2MB/57.2MB
Loaded image: veritas/flexsnap-deploy:10.1.0.0.1005
439f0da098cd: Loading layer [==================================================>]  5.632kB/5.632kB
330348b98074: Loading layer [==================================================>]     64MB/64MB
Loaded image: veritas/flexsnap-rabbitmq:10.1.0.0.1005
2070f36290f4: Loading layer [==================================================>]   34.3kB/34.3kB
faca6ad364c3: Loading layer [==================================================>]  865.8kB/865.8kB
b0f22c31174d: Loading layer [==================================================>]  279.6MB/279.6MB
Loaded image: veritas/flexsnap-api-gateway:10.1.0.0.1005
7bb7b547ef29: Loading layer [==================================================>]  8.192kB/8.192kB
244ad9d09146: Loading layer [==================================================>]  6.656kB/6.656kB
c10ebc736986: Loading layer [==================================================>]  193.7MB/193.7MB
Loaded image: veritas/flexsnap-fluentd:10.1.0.0.1005
e48739b330f1: Loading layer [==================================================>]  23.55kB/23.55kB
5686c5f93e1a: Loading layer [==================================================>]  876.5kB/876.5kB
8ecac31f1564: Loading layer [==================================================>]  418.6MB/418.6MB
5fd91c9cd7b3: Loading layer [==================================================>]  2.048kB/2.048kB
ff641dd08e00: Loading layer [==================================================>]  28.16kB/28.16kB
Loaded image: veritas/flexsnap-datamover:10.1.0.0.1005
6f063a66d20a: Loading layer [==================================================>]   5.12kB/5.12kB
0ae89ddd7a56: Loading layer [==================================================>]  342.7MB/342.7MB
00fd9132896d: Loading layer [==================================================>]  3.072kB/3.072kB
Loaded image: veritas/flexsnap-mongodb:10.1.0.0.1005

Note:

The output is truncated to fit the page.

Verify that there are no protection policy snapshots or other operations in progress and then stop Snapshot Manager by running the following command:

For Podman

# podman run -it --rm -u 0 -v /cloudpoint:/cloudpoint -v /run/podman/podman.sock:/run/podman/podman.sock 
veritas/flexsnap-deploy:<current_version> stop

For Docker

# docker run -it --rm -u 0 -v /cloudpoint:/cloudpoint -v /run/docker/docker.sock:/run/docker/docker.sock 
veritas/flexsnap-deploy:<current_version> stop

Here, current_version represents the currently installed Snapshot Manager version.

Note:

Ensure that you enter the command without any line breaks.

The Snapshot Manager containers are stopped one by one. Messages similar to the following appear on the command line:

Stopping the services
Stopping container: flexsnap-core-system-0-0 ...done
Stopping container: flexsnap-core-indexing-0-0 ...done
Stopping container: flexsnap-core-general-0-0 ...done
Stopping container: flexsnap-core ...done
Stopping container: flexsnap-nginx ...done
Stopping container: flexsnap-core ...done
Stopping container: flexsnap-core ...done
Stopping container: flexsnap-scheduler ...done
Stopping container: flexsnap-idm ...done
Stopping container: flexsnap-core ...done
Stopping container: flexsnap-core ...done
Stopping container: flexsnap-core ...done
Stopping container: flexsnap-api-gateway ...done
Stopping container: flexsnap-certauth ...done
Stopping container: flexsnap-rabbitmq ...done
Stopping container: flexsnap-mongodb ...done
Stopping container: flexsnap-fluentd ...done

Wait for all the Snapshot Manager containers to be stopped and then proceed to the next step.

Depending on the environment, upgrade Snapshot Manager by running the following command:

For Podman

# podman run -it --rm -u 0 
-v /cloudpoint:/cloudpoint 
-v /run/podman/podman.sock:/run/podman/podman.sock 
veritas/flexsnap-deploy:<new_version> install

For an unattended installation, use the following command:

# podman run -it --rm -u 0 
-v /cloudpoint:/cloudpoint 
-v /run/podman/podman.sock:/run/podman/podman.sock 
veritas/flexsnap-deploy:<new_version> install -y

For Docker

# sudo docker run -it --rm --privileged -u 0 -v /cloudpoint:/cloudpoint -v /cloudpoint:/cloudpoint 
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
veritas/flexsnap-deploy:<new_version> install

For an unattended installation, use the following command:

# sudo docker run -it --rm --privileged -u 0 -v /cloudpoint:/cloudpoint -v /cloudpoint:/cloudpoint 
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
veritas/flexsnap-deploy:<new_version> install -y

Here, new_version represents the Snapshot Manager version you are upgrading to, for example '10.1.0.0.1005'

The -y option passes an approval for all the subsequent installation prompts and allows the installer to proceed in a non-interactive mode.

Note:

Ensure that you enter the command without any line breaks.

The installer first loads the individual service images and then launches them in their respective containers.

The output resembles the following, here as an example the Podman environment output is provided:

Installing the services
Configuration started at time: Mon May  3 11:57:33 UTC 2021
podman server version: 2.0.5 Supported: true
This is an upgrade to NetBackup Snapshot Manager 10.1.0.0.1005
Previous CloudPoint version: 10.0.0.0.9800
Do you want to take a backup of the Snapshot Manager metadata prior to upgrade? 
(y/n): y
Taking backup of Snapshot Manager metadata...done
Backup completed successfully.
Backup file located at /cloudpoint/backup/cloudpoint_9.0.0.0.9234.tar.gz.
[Storing /cloudpoint/keys/idm_store]
[Storing /cloudpoint/keys/flexsnap-idm_store]
Creating network: flexsnap-network ...done
Starting container: flexsnap-fluentd ...done
Starting container: flexsnap-mongodb ...done
Starting container: flexsnap-rabbitmq ...done
Starting container: flexsnap-certauth ...done
Starting container: flexsnap-api-gateway ...done
Starting container: flexsnap-core ...done
Starting container: flexsnap-core ...done
Starting container: flexsnap-core ...done
Starting container: flexsnap-core ...done
Starting container: flexsnap-scheduler ...done
Starting container: flexsnap-core ...done
Starting container: flexsnap-core ...done
Starting container: flexsnap-idm ...done
Starting container: flexsnap-deploy ...done
Starting container: flexsnap-nginx ...done
Upgrade finished at time: Mon May  3 11:58:51 UTC 2021
Before using backups from cloud snapshots, re-register Snapshot Manager with the 
NetBackup primary server

(Optional) Run the following command to remove the previous version images.
(For Podman) # podman rmi -f <imagename>:<oldimage_tagid>
(For Docker) # docker rmi -f <imagename>:<oldimage_tagid>
To verify that the new Snapshot Manager version is installed successfully:
See Verifying that Snapshot Manager is installed successfully.
This concludes the upgrade process. Verify that your Snapshot Manager configuration settings and data are preserved as is.