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NetBackup™ Upgrade Guide
Last Published:
2025-03-18
Product(s):
NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (11.0)
- Introduction
- About the NetBackup 11.0 Upgrade Guide
- Available NetBackup upgrade methods
- About changes in NetBackup 11.0
- Ansible supported playbooks for NetBackup
- Client push staging area no longer populated
- VRTSpddei.rpm no longer delivered in NetBackup 10.5
- About binaries installed on primary and media servers
- 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
- NetBackup Administration Console and JRE installation optional for some computers
- Logging directory permissions require reset on rollback
- External certificate authority certificates supported in NetBackup 8.2 and later
- About Cohesity Usage Insights
- Best practices for Cohesity Usage Insights
- Planning for an upgrade
- General upgrade planning information
- About planning a NetBackup 11.0 upgrade
- How to plan for an upgrade to NetBackup 11.0
- 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
- Minimum operating system versions
- Windows compiler and security requirements for NetBackup 11.0 and later upgrade
- Creating the user account to support the NetBackup web server
- About NetBackup 11.0 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 11.0
- Performing local, remote, or clustered server upgrades on Windows systems
- Performing silent upgrades on Windows systems
- Upgrading Linux server software to NetBackup 11.0
- Silently upgrading NetBackup primary server software on Linux
- Post-install procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 11.0
- 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 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 components after upgrade
- About the NetBackup web user interface
- About the NetBackup answer file
- About pushing client software from a primary server to clients
- 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
Minimum operating system versions
For detailed information about the minimum operating system that is required for NetBackup, refer to the SORT website. The SORT website contains a complete list of compatible Windows, UNIX, and Linux operating systems in the Software Compatibility List (SCL):