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Sun QFS and Sun Storage Archive Manager 5.3 Installation Guide     Sun QFS and Sun Storage Archive Manager 5.3 Information Library
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Preface

1.  About Sun QFS and Sun Storage Archive Manager

2.  Planning Your Environment

3.  Preparing for Installation

4.  Release Package Contents, Directories, and Files

5.  Installing Sun QFS and SAM-QFS

6.  Installing and Configuring SAM-QFS Manager

7.  Configuring the File System Environment

8.  Setting Up Mount Parameters and Initializing the File System Environment

9.  Backing Up SAM-QFS Data and Files

10.  Upgrading Sun QFS and SAM-QFS

Upgrade Overview Task Map

Preparing for an Upgrade

Upgrade Considerations

Support for Rolling Upgrades in a Shared Environment

How to Perform Rolling Upgrades in a Shared Environment

Preserving Information for an Upgrade

Backing Up Existing File Systems

Backing Up Using the Version 1, Version 2, and Version 2A Superblocks

How to Back Up the File System (Sun QFS Configurations)

How to Back Up a File System (SAM-QFS Configurations)

Example Of Using the samfsdump Command

Stopping Archiving Operations

How to Stop Archiving Operations From SAM-QFS Manager

How to Stop Archiving Operations From the Command Line

Unsharing File Systems

Unmounting File Systems

How To Unmount a File System Using SAM-QFS Manager

How to Unmount a File System From the Command Line

How to Unmount by Editing the /etc/vfstab File

Removing Existing Software

How to Remove Existing Software

Adding the Upgrade Packages

How to Add the Packages

Upgrading SAM-QFS Manager

Restoring the File System

How to Verify the mcf File

How to Modify the /etc/vfstab File

How to Reinitialize and Restore the File System

How to Check the File System

Mounting the File System

How to Mount the File System Using SAM-QFS Manager

Recompiling API-Dependent Applications

Upgrading Hardware

General Prerequisites

Switching Between SPARC and AMD Platforms

Configuring EFI Labels for Shared x64 and SPARC Volumes

How to Convert Disk Labels From the Default SMI VTOC8 to EFI

Upgrading the Oracle Solaris OS

How to Upgrade the Oracle Solaris OS in a Sun QFS Environment

11.  Uninstalling the SAM-QFS Manager Software

12.  Installing Sun QFS and Sun Storage Archive Manager -- Quick Start

Chapter 10

Upgrading Sun QFS and SAM-QFS

This section describes the procedures for upgrading a server to the 5.3 release of the Sun Storage Archive Manager or Sun QFS software. Use these procedures if you are upgrading your storage archive management functionality or Sun QFS file system.


Note - You must perform all the tasks in this section as superuser.

If you are upgrading from SAM-QFS 5.2 in a shared environment, you can perform a rolling upgrade. For more information, see Support for Rolling Upgrades in a Shared Environment.