Upgrading Oracle Secure Backup

About Upgrade Installations

In an upgrade installation, the Oracle Secure Backup catalogs (contained in the admin directory) are preserved, retaining configuration information and backup metadata for your administrative domain. This state information for your administrative domain, such as the backup catalog, host, user and device configuration information, and any scheduled backup jobs, is stored in the admin directory under the Oracle Secure Backup home on your administrative server.

Note:

Oracle recommends backing up the administrative server before upgrading.

Before upgrading an existing administrative domain to Oracle Secure Backup 18.1, you must shut down drivers and background processes related to Oracle Secure Backup on all hosts. Upgrade the administrative server host first, and then the other hosts in the domain.

Brief instructions on each step are described in the following sections.

About Upgrade Requirements

You can upgrade only Oracle Secure Backup 12.1 or Oracle Secure Backup 12.2 to Oracle Secure Backup 18.1. If you are using an earlier version, then you must upgrade to Oracle Secure Backup 12.1.0.2 prior to upgrading to Oracle Secure Backup 18.1.

If your backup domain is currently running Oracle Secure Backup version 10.4.0.4 or earlier, the backup domain administrator must run obcm recertifydomain after upgrading to Oracle Secure Backup 12.1.0.2. See Renewing Certificates in Automated Certificate Provisioning Mode for information about renewing certificates using the obcm recertifydomain command.

Oracle Secure Backup 18.1 is backward compatible with Oracle Secure Backup 12.2 and Oracle Secure Backup 12.1 clients. Oracle Secure Backup 18.1 supports Oracle Secure Backup 12.2 and Oracle Secure Backup 12.1 features and is interoperable with their functionality.

Keep the following requirements in mind while performing an upgrade to Oracle Secure Backup 18.1:

Ensure that the platform that you plan to upgrade to Oracle Secure Backup 18.1 is supported, prior to performing the upgrade. If you attempt to upgrade Oracle Secure Backup on an unsupported platform, it reports an error and exits.

See Also:

"Supported Platforms and Tape Devices" for more information on Oracle Secure Backup supported platforms
Prior to upgrading the administrative server, confirm that the backup domain is not in the midst of backing up any hosts.
Ensure that the media servers and the clients are out of service prior to performing the upgrade.
The installer preserves the role of each host during the upgrade process.
Oracle Secure Backup policy settings are retained during the upgrade process.

Upgrade Installation on Windows x64

You can upgrade your Windows 64-bit administrative server, media servers, and clients to Oracle Secure Backup 18.1 by running the Oracle Secure Backup 18.1 installer. The installer detects the existing installation of Oracle Secure Backup and runs the uninstaller for the previous version automatically before beginning the installation of Oracle Secure Backup 18.1.

The uninstaller displays the following prompt:

This system was configured as an Oracle Secure Backup Administrative Server.

Oracle Secure Backup creates files specific to this administrative 
domain in the "admin" directory. Would you like to keep these files 
in case you reinstall Oracle Secure Backup? 

If you choose "Delete" all files related to Oracle Secure Backup 
will be removed from this system. If you choose "Keep" the files 
specific to this administrative domain will be retained.

You must choose the Keep option for the admin directory files. Selecting the Delete option causes the installation to be incomplete, and then you must uninstall and reinstall Oracle Secure Backup to complete the installation. If you do not want to save the existing admin directory files, then you must exit the installation, uninstall the existing version of Oracle Secure Backup and select the Delete option. After you have uninstalled the existing version of Oracle Secure Backup, you can install Oracle Secure Backup 18.1 by running the Oracle Secure Backup 18.1 installer.

You can use the following procedure to upgrade a Windows x64 administrative server or client:

Uninstall the existing Oracle Secure Backup software, selecting the Keep option.
See Also:
- "Uninstalling Oracle Secure Backup on Windows"
Run the Oracle Secure Backup 12.2 installer.

Under some circumstances (usually on a media server), it may be necessary to reboot the host. The 12.2 installer will notify if a reboot is required and the install will not proceed until the host is rebooted.

Performing an Upgrade Installation on Linux or UNIX

This section contains the recommended process for upgrading an Oracle Secure Backup installation on Linux or UNIX.