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Veritas NetBackup

Release Impact Bulletin

UNIX, Windows, and Linux

Release 6.5


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Contents

Chapter 1 NetBackup 6.5 Release Impact Information

Understanding your NetBackup media kit ........................................................1

Media kit changes ..........................................................................................1

Contents of the NetBackup media kit .........................................................2

NetBackup licensing options & requirements ........................................... 6

Changes to NetBackup licensing ..........................................................6

NetBackup license key requirements ..................................................8

NetBackup Release Updates ......................................................................... 8

NetBackup system requirements ........................................................................9

NetBackup support ..............................................................................................10

Supported platforms ...................................................................................11

Binary size requirements ............................................................................11

Backward compatibility ..............................................................................11

Before installing NetBackup ..............................................................................15

Installation requirements ...........................................................................16

Installation and upgrade requirements ............................................16

Windows-specific installation requirements ..................................16

UNIX-specific installation requirements .........................................17

Windows system requirements .........................................................17

UNIX system requirements ................................................................18

NetBackup provisional information .................................................................18

NetBackup LiveUpdate ................................................................................19

Installation and upgrade .............................................................................19
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2 Contents


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Chapter 1

NetBackup 6.5 Release

Impact Information

The NetBackup Enterprise Server product provides additional functionality,

flexibility, and robustness, for large enterprise environments. The NetBackup

Server product is a high-performance solution that offers ease of use andfunctionality that is appropriate for the smaller work environments.

This document contains pre-installation information about NetBackup that will

help customers:

Understand the contents of their media kit.

Understand the system requirements (including memory requirements) that

are needed to successfully install or upgrade NetBackup.

Understand the backward compatibility capabilities of NetBackup 6.5.

Gain access to information that is aimed at improving a customers

experience with installing, configuring, and using NetBackup.

Understanding your NetBackup media kit

The following sections describe changes in how Symantec will release theNetBackup product as well as the contents of the media kit.

Media kit changesAs NetBackup evolves with new features and added functionality, its growth

may require you to mount more CDs or DVDs depending on the type of platform

that you are installing. The following list explains current changes and direction

in how Symantec delivers NetBackup.


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2 NetBackup 6.5 Release Impact Information


Starting with this release, Symantec is delivering NetBackup in both

CD-ROM and DVD media formats. Starting with the next major release ofNetBackup, the product will only be available on DVD media.

The following list describes NetBackup 6.0 CD-ROM changes that still apply

to NetBackup 6.5.

All compressed files are compressed using gzip. The installation of

these files requires that gunzip, as well as gzip, be installed on the

machine before NetBackup is installed. For all UNIX platforms, except

HP-UX, the binaries are expected to be in /bin or /usr/bin and thatdirectory is expected to be part of the root users PATH variable. On

HP-UX the gzip and gunzip commands are expected to be in

/usr/contrib/bin. Installation scripts will add that directory to the

PATH variable. These commands must be present to have successful

UNIX installations.

All UNIX clients are no longer present on every server CD, they are on a

separate CD. Each server package now only contains the client types

that belong to that server's hardware class. To load additional UNIXclients on a server, the user must install them from the new UNIX

Clients CD.

Starting with NetBackup 6.0, permissions were changed so that a root

user may install from UNIX NetBackup CD images mounted using NFS.

In NetBackup 6.0, the duplicate definition of a Linux client is no longer

being created. The ability for a user to define a client as NTEL/Red

Hat2.4 or Linux Red Hat2.4 was removed in NetBackup 6.0 and onlyLinux Red Hat will be used.

Note: Symantec suggests you update any existing policies that contain

clients configured as "INTEL Red Hat2.4" to "Linux Red Hat2.4".

Contents of the NetBackup media kit

Starting with this release, Symantec is delivering NetBackup in both CD-ROM

and DVD media formats. Starting with the next major release of NetBackup, the

product will only be available on DVD media.

Your NetBackup media kit includes multiple CDs or DVDs. The label on each CD

and DVD provides a brief description of its contents.

NetBackup documentation is included on both CD and DVD, and accompanies

each product order. The documentation is in Portable Document Format (PDF),

for all NetBackup software products in a release. The documentation isorganized into product groups. You can use Acrobat Reader to print the files you

select.


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3NetBackup 6.5 Release Impact Information


If Autorun is enabled on your Windows system, you see a Web page that lists the

documents that you can select to view. On UNIX or Linux systems, or if Autorunis disabled on the Windows system, navigate to the CD drive to view the CD

contents. From that drive, you can select documents to view or copy them to a

local drive.

The following table lists the title of each NetBackup 6.5 CD, along with a brief

description of its contents.

Note: Beginning with NetBackup 6.5, Veritas Security Services and its associatedacronym (VxSS) are replaced by Symantec Product Authentication and

Authorization.

Note: The following table of NetBackup CDs supersedes the table of NetBackup

CDs found in the NetBackup 6.5 Installation Guides and the NetBackup 6.5

Getting Started Guide.

NetBackup CD Contents

Windows 32-bit Server/Client/Options

Windows IA-64-bit Server/Client/Options

Windows X64-bit Server/Client/Options

Solaris SPARC Server/Clients

Solaris x86-64-bit Server/Clients

HP-UX PA-RISC Server/Clients

HP-UX IA-64-bit Server/Client

Linux 2.4 Server/Client

Linux 2.6 Red Hat Server/Client

Linux IA-64-bit 2.6 Red Hat and SuSE Servers/Clients

Linux 2.6 SuSE Server/Client

AIX RS6000 Server/Client

Tru64 (Alpha) Server/Client

UNIX Client1 Tru64, all HP, and AIX

UNIX Client2 Mac and all Linux


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UNIX Client3 Solaris, FreeBSD, and IRIX

BMR UNIX

UNIX Options UNIX Options/Database Agents

NOM NetBackup Operations Manager

Storage Migrator UNIX

NetBackup Document Set Complete NetBackup documentation set in PDF format

NetBackup Infrastructure

Core Services (ICS for

Windows 32-bit)

Symantec Product Authentication & Authorization

installers for Windows 32-bit

ICS Windows IA-64-bit Symantec Product Authentication & Authorization

installers for Windows IA-64-bit

ICS Windows X64-bit Symantec Product Authentication & Authorizationinstallers for Windows X64-bit

ICS Solaris SPARC Symantec Product Authentication & Authorization, and

PBX installers for Solaris SPARC

ICS Solaris x86-64-bit Symantec Product Authentication & Authorization, and

PBX installers for Solaris x86-64-bit

ICS HP-UX

PA-RISC/IA-64-bit

Symantec Product Authentication & Authorization, and

PBX installers for HP-UX PA-RISC/IA-64-bit

ICS Linux 2.4/2.6 Symantec Product Authentication & Authorization, and

PBX installers for Linux 2.4/2.6

ICS Linux 2.6 IA-64-bit Symantec Product Authentication & Authorization, and

PBX installers for Linux 2.6 IA-64-bit

ICS AIX Symantec Product Authentication & Authorization, and

PBX installers for AIX

ICS Tru64 Symantec Product Authentication & Authorization, and

PBX installers for Tru64

NetBackup CD Contents (continued)


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The following table lists the title of each NetBackup 6.5 DVD, along with a brief

description of its contents.

NetBackup DVD Contents

Windows 32-/

64-bit, ICS 32-

and 64-bit, and

UNIX clients

Windows 32-bit Server/Client/Options

Windows IA-64-bit Server/Client/Options

Windows X64-bit Server/Client/Options

ICS Windows 32-bit

ICS Windows IA-64-bit

ICS Windows X64-bit

UNIX Client1 (Tru64, all HP and AIX)

UNIX Client2 (Mac and all Linux)

UNIX Client3 (Solaris's, FreeBSD, and IRIX)

Solaris SPARC

and x86-64,

Linux, and ICS

Solaris SPARC Server/Clients

Solaris x86-bit Server/Client

Linux 2.4 Server/Client

Linux 2.6 Red Hat Server/Client

Linux 2.6 IA-64-bit Red Hat/SuSE Servers/Clients

Linux 2.6 SuSE Server/Client

ICS Solaris SPARC

ICS Solaris x86-64-bit

ICS Linux 2.4/2.6 32-bit

ICS Linux 2.6 IA-64-bit

HP, AIX, Tru64,and ICS

HP-UX PA-RISC Server/Client HP-UX IA-64 Server/Client

AIX RS6000 Server/Client

Tru64 Server/Client

ICS HP-UX RISC/IA-64

ICS AIX

ICS Tru64

BMR, UNIX

Options, NOM,

Storage Migrator,

& NetBackup

Documentation

Set

BMR for UNIX

UNIX options

NetBackup Operations Manager (UNIX and Windows)

Storage Migrator

Complete NetBackup documentation set in PDF format


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Note: NetBackup 6.5 contains two new documents that accompany the PureDiskfeature. Those documents are the Veritas NetBackup PureDisk Remote Office

Edition Getting Started Guide and the Veritas NetBackup PureDisk Remote

Office Edition Administrator's Guide. You can download a copy of these

documents from the Symantec Support Web site using the following URL.

http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/support/downloads.jsp?pid=52672

NetBackup licensing options & requirementsSeveral changes in the licensing options for Veritas NetBackup will impact your

license entitlements and will likely entitle you to additional features of

NetBackup. A version upgrade letter that announces the availability of

NetBackup 6.5 was sent to all existing customers outlining these changes.

Customers must be current on maintenance to access any of the new

entitlements mentioned below.

Changes to NetBackup licensing

Several significant changes have been made to NetBackup licensing that

consolidate and simplify the offerings. The following list provides three key

examples of these changes, but is not a comprehensive list of all licensing

changes.

NetBackup Standard ClientThe NetBackup Standard Client replaces the NetBackup Protect Server

client license. In addition, PureDisk Client, Bare Metal Restore and the

Client Encryption Option are also included in the Standard Client license.

Please note that these features are still separately installed but enabled

with a single Standard Client license key.

Bare Metal Restore (BMR) is now included in the Standard Client and is

no longer available for separate purchase. If you have purchased BMR

you will now get this feature in your Standard Client license.

Client Encryption Option is now included in the Standard Client and is

no longer available for separate purchase. If you have purchased the

Client Encryption Option you will now get this feature in your Standard

Client license. Please note this does not include nor impact the Media

Server Encryption Option.

NetBackup Enterprise Client

The NetBackup Enterprise Client consolidates several optional clientfeatures of NetBackup into a single license that includes Snapshot Client,

SAN Media Server, the new SAN Client. Please note that these features are


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still separately installed but enabled with a single Enterprise Client license

key. Snapshot Client is now included in the Enterprise Client and is no

longer available as a separate purchase. If you have previously

purchased Snapshot Client (previously called Advanced Client) and are

current on maintenance, you are entitled to the Enterprise Client.

SAN Media Server is now included in the Enterprise Client and is no

longer available for separate purchase. If you have previously

purchased SAN Media Server and are current on maintenance you are

entitled to the Enterprise Client.

SAN Client is a new NetBackup 6.5 feature that is included in the

Enterprise Client.

Application and Database Pack

The Application and Database Pack consolidates several application agents

into a single license. It is possible to protect multiple instances of the same

type of application or database on the same system (such as multiple MS

SQL databases) with one Application and Database Pack. If multiple types of

applications or databases are to be protected (such as MS Exchange and MS

SQL) then multiple licenses are required. Additionally, if the same type of

database is used with multiple operating systems (such as on a virtualized

system running Oracle on Linux and Oracle Windows) then additional

licenses are required for each operating system. If you have previously

purchased any of these listed agents and are current on maintenance you

are entitled to the Application and Database Pack. Please note that the SAP

agent is not included and these features are still separately installed.

Oracle

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft Exchange Server

Microsoft SharePoint Portal

IBM DB2

IBM Lotus Notes Informix

Sybase

For additional information on licensing changes or to request another copy of

your customer upgrade letter, please contact Symantec Support. You may also

get additional information from your reseller or Symantec sales representative.


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NetBackup license key requirements

When you install a NetBackup master or media server, you must enter a

NetBackup base product license key. Check your release package to make sure

that you have license keys for all the NetBackup servers, options, and agents

that you requested.

Enter all product license keys on the master server when you are prompted

during the installation. For detailed information on how to administer

NetBackup license keys, refer to the NetBackup Administrators Guide.

NetBackup Release UpdatesBeginning with NetBackup 6.5, Symantec will provide Release Updates instead

of maintenance packs for each of its major product releases. (This new release

model does not effect earlier versions of NetBackup.)

Maintenance packs were a very useful and will continue to be a useful method of

providing product fixes to our customers, but they can be restrictive. By

changing to our new Release Update model, Symantec is able to continue toprovide the same level of fixes as before; provide new timely features, complete

with documentation, training, and a full release test verification with each

Release Update.

When making this decision Symantec took into consideration, the content and

size of a Release Update as well as the frequency in which a new update would

occur. Symantec has decided it is in our customers best interest to provide them

with new features in a shorter range of time, rather than wait as long as two

years for the next major release for new features to become available. Byincluding new features with each Release Update, NetBackup customers will be

able to take advantage of those features much sooner, enabling them to do their

job more efficiently. Features in release updates will be smaller non-invasive

type features, that will be available to those who want them and harmless to

those who do not.

With a new release model comes a new labeling scheme. Release Updates will be

numbered according to the major NetBackup release that it corresponds with.

For example, the first release update after NetBackup 6.5 GA releases will be

labeled, NetBackup 6.5.1, the second will be 6.5.2, and so on.

How often will Release Updates become available? Our intent is to deliver our

first Release Update (6.5.1) about 3 months after a major release has officially

shipped. After that, users can expect to see the next three Release Updates to be

released every four months in succession (6.5.2 - 6.5.4). After that, Release

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NetBackup system requirements

NetBackup system requirementsBefore you install NetBackup, Symantec recommends that you read through this

document and the NetBackup Release Notes for UNIX, Windows, and Linux.

The following subsections describe the basic system requirements needed to

download and install the product. For additional installation requirements, refer

to the NetBackup Installation Guides (Windows or UNIX). For official binary

sizes per platform, refer to the NetBackup Release Notes for UNIX, Windows, and

Linux.

Remove any other vendors backup software currently configured on your

system before installing NetBackup. The backup software of another vendor

can negatively affect how NetBackup installs and functions.

The minimum screen resolution configuration is 1024x768, 256 colors.

NetBackup 6.5 contains features that are dependent on Veritas Private

Branch Exchange (PBX). PBX helps limit the number of TCP/IP ports used by

many new features in NetBackup. Because PBX is required for all NetBackupuses, it has been added to the installation procedure as something you may

need to install if PBX does not exist on your system. For more information

about how PBX may affect your NetBackup installation, refer to the

NetBackup Installation Guidefor the platform that you are about to install.

Windows-specific system requirements:

Make certain that you have adequate disk space before starting a NetBackup

installation. The following list provides some general memory requirements fora basic Windows system.

System configuration necessary to install NetBackup on a Windows-based

server:

An Intel Pentium system running a compatible Windows platform with

a minimum of 1 Gigabyte of memory.

Requires a minimum browser level of Internet Explorer 5.0 for

NetBackup. Adequate disk space: Symantec recommends that master and media servers

in a production environment with several database agents enabled have a

minimum of 2 Gigabyte of disk space each to accommodate the NetBackup

server software and NetBackup catalogs. Any client in this sort of

environment should have a minimum of 512 MB of disk space. The following

items provide a basic itemization of the disk space requirements.

Intel server software requires approximately 512 MB.

NetBackup catalogs contain information about your backups and will

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NetBackup compatibility

catalogs require depends primarily on the number of files backed up,

the frequency of your backups, and the amount of time you chose toretain your backup data. Symantec suggests that you allow a minimum

of 512 MB.

An additional 500 MB of disk space is necessary on the drive where

Windows is installed during the upgrade process. After the upgrade is

complete, this additional space is no longer needed.

Symantec recommends that you have a minimum available space of 5%

in any Disk Storage Unit volume or file system.

UNIX-specific system requirements:

The following list provides some general memory requirements for a basic UNIX

system.

Symantec recommends that master and media servers in a production

environment with several database agents enabled have a minimum of 2GB

of memory each to accommodate the NetBackup server software and

NetBackup catalogs. Any client in this sort of environment should have aminimum of 512 MB of memory.

System configuration requirements necessary to install NetBackup on a

UNIX Server with Java are: 1 gigabyte of physical memory, and 256

megabytes of memory available to the application.

Robust File Logging enables you to set a maximum size of each of the debug

log files and also set the maximum number of log files in each NetBackup

debug log directory. This way, if the maximum size is exceeded a new debuglog file is created. And if the Maximum number of debug log files is

exceeded, the oldest log file will be deleted.

Shared memory: The default shared memory requirements are greater for

NetBackup 6.5 than for previous releases. For additional information

regarding shared memory requirements, refer to the NetBackup Installation

Guide for UNIX and Linux, and the NetBackup Troubleshooting Guide for

UNIX, Windows, and Linux.

NetBackup compatibilityThe following subsections explain how to find the latest platform compatibility

information and information describing NetBackups backwards compatibility

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Compatible platformsThe compatible platform information for this release of NetBackup located in

Chapter 2, Supported platforms and peripherals, in the NetBackup Release Notes

for UNIX, Windows, and Linuxand on the Symantec Support Web site. The

information on the Support Web site is updated periodically and can be viewed

by using the following procedure.

To locate platform compatibility information on the Symantec Support Web

site

1 Go to http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/support.

2 Type NetBackup Enterprise Server in the Product Lookup field.

3 Click > search icon.

4 Click on the NetBackup Enterprise Server link in the bulleted list below the

title, Support for Top Products. The NetBackup Enterprise Server Web page

appears.

5 In the list on the right side of this Web page, click on Compatibility List.

A Compatibility and Reference Web page appears that contains a list of

compatibility documents. From this Web page, you are able to refine your

search to find a link to the appropriate document. (The compatibility list

documents are in PDF format. You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader to view

these documents.)

Binary size requirementsThe approximate binary size of the NetBackup master and media server

software, and the NetBackup client software requirements for each platform

and operating system that is compatible with NetBackup can be found in

Chapter 2 of the NetBackup Release Notes for UNIX, Windows, and Linuxbook.

Backward compatibilityNetBackup is compatible with mixed versions (including mixed patch-level

versions) for many releases. This back-level compatibility enables NetBackup

servers to run a mixture of NetBackup major releases and patches in the same

environment. However, Symantec validates only certain combinations of

servers and clients, as identified in the following table.

Table 1-1 Mixed-server compatability for NetBackup 6.5

Master Server Version Media Server Version Client Version

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For example, with this release of NetBackup a customer can have the

following in their environment and have all managed by one master server: A master server running NetBackup 6.5. (If the EMM server is a

separate server, it must also run NetBackup 6.5.)

All remaining master servers must also run NetBackup 6.5.

A media server running NetBackup 6.5.

Any other media server running either NetBackup 6.0 MP3 or greater,

5.1 GA, 5.1 MPx, or 5.0 MP4 or greater.

Note: A NetBackup 6.5 master server is not compatible with a

NetBackup 6.0, 6.0 MP1, or 6.0 MP2 media server that has tape media

configured. A change to correct this issue was made in the NetBackup

6.0 MP3 release and was carried forward to NetBackup 6.5. Therefore,

6.5 master servers are compatible with 6.0 MP3 media servers or later.

Any number of clients running NetBackup 5.xor 6.x.

Note: NetBackup 4.5 clients are not compatible with NetBackup 6.x

master and media servers because of changes in the way NetBackup

transfers data between client and media servers. A change was made in

NetBackup 5.x to allow for the more efficient transfer of large files (2

GB and larger in size) between client and media servers. This was done

to improve how large files were backed up.

Because this change will not be incorporated into NetBackup 4.5, and

since NetBackup 6.x relies on this change, NetBackup 4.5 clients are not

compatible with NetBackup 6.x servers.

For more information about upgrading NetBackup from 5.xto 6.5, go to the

Symantec Support web site, http://entsupport.symantec.com and click on the

NetBackup Enterprise Server link. The next page that appears includes a Hot

Topics section that provides a link to a NetBackup Upgrade Portal. Click on the

upgrade portal link and following the procedures described in the linkeddocuments at that Web site to ensure a successful upgrade.

NetBackup 6.5 6.5 6.0, 5.0MP4 (or later) or 5.1

NetBackup 6.5 6.0MP3 (or later), 5.0MP4 (or

later) or 5.1

6.0, 5.0MP4 (or later) or 5.1

Table 1-1 Mixed-server compatability for NetBackup 6.5

Master Server Version Media Server Version Client Version
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For more information about upgrading NetBackup 6.0 to 6.5, refer to the

NetBackup Installation Guidefor your operating system. The upgrade sectioncontain various mixed-version scenarios and how they must be upgraded to this

version of NetBackup. However, the general rules for a mixed-server

environment are as follows:

Before you upgrade the NetBackup server software, you must back up your

NetBackup catalogs and verify that the catalog backup was successful.

In a mixed-server environment, the master server must run the highest

version of NetBackup in use in that configuration. A master server can inter-operate with a media server that is running a level

of NetBackup that is one major release lower.

Back-level servers (those servers that are running NetBackup 5.x) cannot be

used as a Volume Database Host, global device database host, or vmd/DA

host. These capabilities are all on the EMM database host as part of the

EMM server. Always upgrade NetBackup 5.xservers performing these roles

first. Only then can media servers be upgraded and finally client machines.Again, refer to the NetBackup Installation Guides for detailed upgrade

information.

Note: Symantec recommends that you upgrade all servers to the latest level

as quickly as possible. Running a mixed-server environment that includes

NetBackup 5.x media servers may effect performance; thus, Symantec

recommends you take this into consideration when you upgrade.

A media server cannot have a numerically higher version than the master

server. (Each media server must run equal or lower levels of NetBackup.)

For media server and client backwards compatibility, refer again to Table 1-1

on page 11. This includes database clients.

Starting with NetBackup 6.5, Symantec will ship Release Updates instead of

maintenance packs. A release update will contain the same information as a

maintenance pack did with one addition. A release update will also containproduct features and/or enhancements, along with supporting

documentation.

In addition, the labeling scheme will also change. Release updates will be

numbered according to the major NetBackup release that it relates to. For

example, the first release update candidate after NetBackup 6.5 releases

will be labeled, NetBackup 6.5.1, and so on.

For pre-NetBackup 6.5 versions, applying a NetBackup maintenance pack

(MP) does not alter the version of that release. For example, NetBackup 5.1
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GA and NetBackup 5.1 Maintenance Pack 1 (MP1) are both treated as

NetBackup 5.1 for compatibility purposes and have no co-existence issues.However, for NetBackup 6.0 and NetBackup 5.0 versions, there are the

following compatibility restraints:

A NetBackup 6.5 master server is not compatible with a NetBackup 6.0,

6.0 MP1, or 6.0 MP2 media server that has tape media configured. A

change to correct this issue was made in the NetBackup 6.0 MP3 release

and was carried forward to NetBackup 6.5. Therefore, 6.5 master

servers are compatible with 6.0 MP3 media servers or later.

NetBackup 5.0 media servers, this does not apply. In NetBackup

versions 5.0 GA, MP1, MP2, and MP3, if the media server and the client

were the same machine, you would not be able to restore on the client.

A fix was introduced for this issue in NetBackup version 5.0 MP4.

Therefore, any media server that you want to coexist in a NetBackup

6.5 configuration must be at a version level of 5.0 MP4 or greater. (For

more information about this fix, please refer to TechNote 278153, on

the Symantec Support Web site. The following is a link to this

document, http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/278153 .)

For customers who are currently at 5.0GA and do not want to upgrade to 5.0

MP4, you can perform the following work-around on your machine.

Create the file /usr/openv/netbackup/NOSHM on a UNIX machine

or install_path\NetBackup\NOSHM on a Windows machine.

By creating this touch file, you will likely see a performance degradation for

backups and restores.

Symantec recommends that you remove this file after you have upgraded to5.0 MP4 or greater or upgraded to NetBackup 6.5.

All components (master server, media server, client, console, and agent) on

an individualsystem must be at the same version.

Backup images created under an older version of NetBackup are recoverable

with a newer version of NetBackup.

Servers are able to pull and push their version information between master

and media servers. Your servers NetBackup version determines whether the

version information can be pushed.

After startup, an upgraded media server uses the vmd service to push

its version information to all servers in its master server list. An

automatic update occurs every 24 hours when servers push their

version information again.

Servers must be at NetBackup release version 6.5 or later. If a query

times out for a particular server, it is classified as a pre-6.x version ofNetBackup.
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Before installing NetBackup

Before installing NetBackupWhether performing a clean installation or an upgrade of NetBackup software

(on any platform), Symantec recommends that you refer to the appropriate

installation guide for a comprehensive set of installation instructions to guide

you through the process. For a Windows installation or upgrade, refer to

NetBackup Installation Guide for Windows. For instructions on how to perform a

UNIX installation or upgrade, refer to NetBackup Installation Guide for UNIX

and Linux.

Before you install NetBackup, you should make sure that your environment isproperly configured. The following subsections describe the basic server,

system, and memory requirements that are needed to install the product

successfully. (For official binary sizes per platform, refer to the NetBackup

Release Notes for UNIX, Windows, and Linux.)

Remove any other vendors backup software currently configured on your

system before installing NetBackup. The backup software of another vendor

can negatively affect how NetBackup installs and functions. The minimum screen resolution configuration is 1024x768, with 256 colors.

NetBackup Services and Port Numbers

Symantec suggests that you use the default port settings for NetBackup

services and Internet service ports. If you modify the port numbers,

they must be the same for all NetBackup systems that communicate

with each other (that is, all master servers, media servers, and clients).

The port entries are in the following file:%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\services - (Windows)

/etc/services - (UNIX)

To change the default settings, you must perform a Custom Installation

of NetBackup or manually edit this file.

For users who are upgrading from 5.x directly to NetBackup 6.5

NetBackup 6.5 contains features that are dependent on Symantec

Private Branch Exchange (PBX). PBX helps limit the number of TCP/IPports used by many new features in NetBackup. Because PBX is

required for all NetBackup uses, it has been added to the installation

procedure as something you may need to install if PBX does not exist on

your system. For more information about how PBX may affect your

NetBackup installation, refer to the NetBackup Installation Guidefor

the platform that you are about to install.

After you install the NetBackup server software as a part of an upgrade

installation, you must run the commandnbpushdata. This commandmoves data from your current database files (a subset of the NetBackup


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catalog) into a newly created EMM database. Refer to the NetBackup

Installation Guidefor additional information that pertains to how toupgrade NetBackup.

Installation requirementsThe following subsections describe some of the known NetBackup requirements

that must be satisfied before you attempt to install the product on your server.

Installation and upgrade requirements NetBackup 6.5 allows upgrades from previous versions to NetBackup 6.5.

NetBackup 6.5 does not allow an upgrade from a previous NetBackup 6.5

beta version to a NetBackup GA version.

Mixed master and media server configurations may be compatible; see

Backward compatibility on page 11 for detailed information.

For a complete list of compatible platforms, refer to Chapter 2, Supportedplatforms and peripherals, in the NetBackup Release Notes for UNIX,

Windows, and Linux.

Windows-specific installation requirements

The following list describe contains basic requirements necessary for a

successful installation of NetBackup. The NetBackup Installation Guide for

Windows provides a thorough list of requirements that are platform- or

feature-specific.

An administrator account and password for the server.

Peripherals, such as robotic devices and stand-alone tape drives, installed

according to the manufacturers instructions and recognized by the

Windows software.

The network is configured so the computers recognize and communicate

with one another. Generally, if you can reach the clients from the server byusing the ping command, the setup will work with NetBackup.

Client Software

Installing NetBackup server software also installs client software on

the server system. However, installing NetBackup on client systems is

done separately. Refer to Installing NetBackup Client Software.

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If you install NetBackup Remote Administration Consoles, the master

server must have the system names of the NetBackup AdministrationConsoles in its server list to allow them access.

UNIX-specific installation requirements

The following list describes contains basic requirements necessary for a

successful installation of NetBackup. The NetBackup Installation Guide for UNIX

and Linuxprovides a thorough list of requirements that are platform- or

feature-specific.

Make certain that you have a server of a compatible hardware type running

a compatible version of its operating system (with applicable patches),

adequate disk space, and compatible peripherals. For details on these

requirements, refer to the NetBackup Release Notes for UNIX, Windows, and

Linux.

Please refer to the NetBackup Release Notes for UNIX, Windows, and Linux

for information on known product dependencies such as operating system

patches. It is important that users have the latest patches installed on their

systems before installing NetBackup.

When uninstalling NetBackup, PBX will not be uninstalled. If you would like

to permanently clean your system, refer to the PBX documentation stored

on your platform-specific ICS CD-ROM.

Windows system requirements


installation. The following list provides some general memory requirements for

a basic Windows system. The following list has been updated with more current

information than that supplied in the NetBackup 6.0 Release Notes for UNIX and

Windows document.

System configuration necessary to install NetBackup on a Windows-based

server:

An Intel Pentium system running Windows 2000 (service pack 4) with a

minimum of 1 Gigabyte of memory, or Windows 2003 server (service

pack)1.

Requires a minimum browser level of Internet Explorer 5.0 for

NetBackup.

Adequate disk space: Symantec recommends that master and media servers

in a production environment with several database agents enabled have a

minimum of 2GB of disk space each to accommodate the NetBackup serversoftware and NetBackup catalogs. Any client in this sort of environment

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should have a minimum of 512 MB of disk space. The following items

provide a basic itemization of the disk space requirements. Intel server software requires approximately 512 MB.

NetBackup catalogs contain information about your backups and will

increase in size as you use the product. The amount of disk space the

catalogs require depends primarily on the number of files backed up,

the frequency of your backups, and the amount of time you chose to

retain your backup data. Symantec suggests that you allow a minimum

of 512 MB.

An additional 500 MB of disk space is necessary on the drive where

Windows is installed during the upgrade process. After the upgrade is

complete, this additional space is no longer needed.

Symantec recommends that you have a minimum available space of 5%

in any Disk Storage Unit volume or file system.

UNIX system requirements


installation. The following list provides some general memory requirements for

a basic UNIX system. For product-specific memory and binary size

requirements, refer to the NetBackup Release Notes for UNIX, Windows, and

Linux.

Symantec recommends that master and media servers in a production

environment with several database agents enabled have a minimum of 2GB

of memory each to accommodate the NetBackup server software andNetBackup catalogs. Any client in this sort of environment should have a

minimum of 512 MB of memory.

System configuration requirements necessary to install NetBackup on a

UNIX Server with Java are: 1 gigabyte of physical memory, and 256

megabytes of memory available to the application.

Robust File Logging enables you to set a maximum size of each of the debug

log files and also set the maximum number of log files in each NetBackupdebug log directory. This way, if the maximum size is exceeded a new debug

log file is created. And if the maximum number of debug log files is

exceeded, the oldest log file will be deleted.


The following sections contain additional information about NetBackup 6.5.

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NetBackup LiveUpdate

NetBackup 6.5 contains a new LiveUpdate feature that enables you to downloadand install patches for NetBackup, NetBackup add-on products, and PBX.

If you want to take advantage of the new NetBackup LiveUpdate feature on

Windows systems, you need to first designate a server that will contain the

NetBackup release updates (previously referred to as maintenance packs).

During the NetBackup installation on Windows, if you want to configure the

NetBackup LiveUpdate agent, you will need to specify the location of the

NetBackup LiveUpdate server. For more information on how to configure your

NetBackup LiveUpdate server, refer to the Setting up your NetBackup

LiveUpdate server section in the NetBackup Installation Guide for Windows.

Note: There is no additional software that you need to install to configure your

NetBackup LiveUpdate server.

Installation and upgrade Installing or upgrading PBX

NetBackup versions 6.0 and later require Private Branch Exchange (PBX) to

operate. NetBackup versions earlier than 6.0 did not require PBX. However,

you may have other Veritas or Symantec products installed in your current

NetBackup 5.x environment that require this software.

Windows systems

Regardless of whether PBX already exists in your current NetBackup

5.x environment, the upgrade to NetBackup 6.5 installs or upgrades

PBX automatically.

UNIX systems

If PBX is not installed in your current NetBackup 5.x environment, the

upgrade to NetBackup 6.5 automatically prompts you to install PBX

during the upgrade.

If PBX already exists in your current NetBackup 5.x environment, youmay need to upgrade it before you upgrade to NetBackup 6.5.

Check the installed PBX version by entering the following:

cat /opt/VRTSpbx/build_version

Take the appropriate action as follows:

For versions 1.2.x, upgrade PBX when prompted by the upgrade

script during the NetBackup 6.5 upgrade.

For versions 1.3 - 1.3.24.x, you must first upgrade PBX from theNetBackup 6.5 ICS CD or DVD before you upgrade to NetBackup

6.5.

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For versions 1.3.25.x or later, no PBX upgrade is required.

During installation, the NetBackup Infrastructure Core Services (ICS)installer will create the /opt directory if it does not already exist. However, if

the ICS installer has to create the directory, it may create it with improper

permissions set, enabling only a root user to have access to the directory. If

this occurs, you must manually change the permissions on that directory.

Changes were added to NetBackup access control (NBAC) in this release. To

ensure that you have the latest upgrades installed, you should upgrade

Symantec Product Authentication and Authorization with the latest ICS,

and have Symantec Product Authorization running while you perform this

upgrade.

Documents

NetBackup 65 Release Bulletin 1