Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Decommissioning and Reconfiguration Guide
- Decommissioning a NetBackup appliance
- Reconfiguring a NetBackup appliance
- About reconfiguring a NetBackup appliance
- Reimaging a NetBackup appliance from the USB drive
- Reimaging an appliance using the MyVeritas portal
- Reconfiguring a 52xx primary server appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- Configuring a primary server to communicate with an appliance media server
- Reconfiguring a 52xx or 53xx media server appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- About the NetBackup Appliance USB flash drive
- About NIC1 (eth0) port usage on NetBackup appliances
- About reconfiguring a NetBackup appliance
- Appendix A. LUN reconfiguration
- Index
About the NetBackup Appliance USB flash drive
Included with each NetBackup appliance is a USB flash drive that contains the NetBackup appliance ISO image. The primary use of the USB flash drive is to reimage the appliance. The version of the image is identical to what comes installed on the appliance from the factory.
Other reasons for reimaging an appliance:
Disaster recovery after an operating system-related failure.
Redeploying the appliance with a different version of the appliance software.
Reimaging a new appliance with a different version of the appliance software to deploy in an existing NetBackup appliance environment.
In addition to the NetBackup appliance ISO image, the client packages are also included on the USB flash drive. The client packages are automatically copied into the incoming patches directory, /inst/patch/incoming, when reimaging the appliance.
The client packages can be installed onto the appliance by navigating to Manage > Software and running the command Install<rpm name>. The <rpm name> is found using the List Downloaded command. Once the clients are installed on the appliance, they become available for installation when a client computer accesses the appliance.
If you have misplaced your original USB flash drive you can request another through Veritas Technical Support.
See the following topics for more information on how to reconfigure the appliance:
See Reimaging a NetBackup appliance from the USB drive.
See Reconfiguring a 52xx primary server appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.
See Reconfiguring a 52xx or 53xx media server appliance using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.