NetBackup™ Upgrade Guide
- Introduction
- About the NetBackup 10.4 Upgrade Guide
- Available NetBackup upgrade methods
- About changes in NetBackup 10.4
- License file required for upgrade
- Windows primary server upgrades are slowed if a large number of files are in the installation directory
- About NetBackup database changes
- 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 10.4 upgrade
- How to plan for an upgrade to NetBackup 10.4
- Legacy logging directory security update
- Unified logging 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
- Performance and tuning considerations
- About upgrade tools
- Upgrade operational notes and limitations
- Windows compiler and security requirements for NetBackup 10.4 and later upgrade
- Creating the user account to support the NetBackup web server
- About NetBackup 10.4 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 10.4
- Performing local, remote, or clustered server upgrades on Windows systems
- Performing silent upgrades on Windows systems
- Upgrading Linux server software to NetBackup 10.4
- Silently upgrading NetBackup primary server software on Linux
- Post-install procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 10.4
- 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 primary server web server user and group creation
- NetBackup database user
- Generate a certificate on the inactive nodes of a clustered primary 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
- About the NetBackup IT Analytics Data Collector
- Manually install or uninstall NetBackup IT Analytics Data Collector binaries
- Manually configure the NetBackup IT Analytics Data Collector
- Manually upgrading the NetBackup IT Analytics Data Collector
- 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
- Upgrade requirements for Windows and Windows clusters
- Requirements for Windows cluster upgrades
- Removing a clustered media server by migrating all data to a new media server
- Post upgrade procedures for Amazon cloud storage servers
- Upgrading clients after servers are upgraded
- Upgrade failure rollback steps
- Size guidance for the NetBackup primary server and domain
Windows compiler and security requirements for NetBackup 10.4 and later upgrade
NetBackup 10.4 and later for Windows uses the Visual Studio 2022 compiler and the Windows 11 Software Development Kit (SDK). To run NetBackup 10.4, Windows computers require Visual C++ run-time libraries version 14.36.32532 or later. Microsoft makes available the redistributable utilities that install these libraries. More information on these redistributable utilities is available.
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads
These utilities from Microsoft can alter Windows hosts such that a restart is required. The restart requirement can occur if the Visual C++ run-time libraries are in use by one or more processes on the system. Before you install NetBackup 10.4 or later, Veritas recommends that you install Visual Studio 2022 C++ run-time libraries on Windows computers. The installation of these libraries should take place within a maintenance window where you can safely restart the computer.
On Windows computers that do not have compatible Visual C++ run-time libraries present, the NetBackup upgrade process may offer to do it for you. You are required to acknowledge the risks and opt-in. More information about the risks and the opt-in process is available.
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100062924
The redistributable utilities can fail or behave unexpectedly on hosts without all security updates in place. If a Windows host is not current with security updates, the following behaviors can occur:
NetBackup's upgrade process fails shortly after start with a message about inability to deploy Visual Studio 2022 C++ run-time libraries.
The nbcertcmdtool application fails unexpectedly when run by the NetBackup installation or upgrade process. This failure is difficult to distinguish from nbcertcmdtool failures that result from invalid or insufficient security configuration.
MSDP applications fail unexpectedly near the conclusion of the NetBackup installation or upgrade process.