Upgrading a third-party storage manager

If you upgrade a third-party storage manager vendors, do not remove the old storage manager until you verify that the new storage manager works for both backup and restore operations.

Prerequisite: Before upgrading, perform a complete backup of the database server.

To use a new version of a third-party storage manager with the database server:

  1. Install the new storage manager before you bring up the database server.
  2. Update the sm_versions file with the new storage-manager definition.

Verify that the new storage manager operates correctly before you use it in a production environment:

  • Make sure that the storage manager can find the backup objects that ON-Bar requests.
  • Make sure that the new storage-manager version is able to read media written with your old version.

If you have continuous logical-log backup set up on the database server, ON-Bar can start backing up the logical logs soon after the database server comes online.

Use the onsmsync utility to expire old backup history in the sysutils database and emergency boot files.