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Updating Networker: best practices and tips?
I'll update my Networker server for the first time. It's a small jump (8.2.1 to 8.2.3, Windows). I reviewed this document and it seems to be pretty straightforward: just run the setup.exe and the update will start.
Apart from what's mentioned in the document, do you have any consideration, tip, best practice? Is there anything that I should back up previously?
Thanks!
bingo.1
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August 25th, 2016 10:00
Just ensure that you have a valid bootstrap save set which schould not be older than 1 day.
If you know hot he services/NW daemons are started, use taskmgr to monitor them.
Also use nsrwatch as it will take a while until NMC will be back in service.
Karthik_N1
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August 25th, 2016 10:00
Adding to Bingo's insight.
However upgrade will have a considerate amount of downtime, stop NetWorker services on the server and take a backup/copy of /nsr/res and /nsr/mm folders. Start the service. Follow the steps in the guide that you have mentioned above.
Thanks,
Karthik N
bingo.1
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August 25th, 2016 14:00
The time which is needed to (re)start NW depends on a lot of things, especially
- the size of the media index (minor)
- the 'necessary amount of db conversion actions', for example
- changing the media db from BLISS (up to NW 8.2.2.x) to SQLite (NW 8.2.3.x and NW 9.x)
- changing the resources, especially if you upgrade to NW 9 (with the intro of policies & workflows)
of course, the number of entries also matters
- the number of (old) clients which names cannot be resolved (any longer)
- due to retries, each entry takes a lot of time (the impact can be severe)
- you should use nsrclientfix to report and delete them - if this is not possible use fake entries in the hosts table.
- the number of (remote) backup devices.
I strongly recommend that you verify the timing on a separate test system.
jparedes1
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August 25th, 2016 14:00
Didn't know about the database change on 8.2.3+... so ,I guess it's a bigger jump than I thought.
It's a small environment (about 75 clients), and the index is not that big. Should I consider more than 5, 6 hours for this?
bingo.1
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August 25th, 2016 20:00
NW is really fast - for the actual db conversion7adjustments it will just need some minutes.
The other obstacles would really take time ... especially name resolution issues.
Here is a Windows script that will help you ...
- adjust the pathnames as necessary
- let it run in a separate window and monitor the startup phase
C:\>more D:\scripts\monitoring\tail_daemon_raw.cmd
@echo off
: loop
cls
echo.
echo %TIME%
echo.
D:\nsr\bin\nsr_render_log -B -15 D:\nsr\logs\daemon.raw
timeout /t 5
goto loop
C:\>
Now do a test on an isolated VM with and without an appropriate hosts file to resolve your client name issues.
Verify the difference.