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Data Protector Upgrade Paths
Lately, we’ve been receiving more requests for potential Data Protector upgrade paths. This post includes a simple overview to guide you including intermediate steps necessary to upgrade to the latest version of the software.
AppServer issues when upgrading to 10.x
The AppServer has become an integral part of Data Protector. When it fails neither user authentication, scheduling or reporting will work. A critical issue has been identified that may cause upgrades to fail and/or run-time issues caused by invalid data stored in the jce_service_description and jce_service_property tables in the Data Protector JCE database.
Symptoms
During or after the upgrade from 8.1x or 9.x to 10.x you notice some or all of the following:
- AppServer is unresponsive or slowly responding when running omnidbutil -migrate_schedules
- Java process is causing very high CPU load on Cell Manager
- The progress is slow and only returns errors (e.g. pausing quartz scheduler…failed)
- Java Exceptions and stack overflow getting logged in AppServer server.log
- Backup sessions not getting executed while scheduler is active and jobs are scheduled
- Data Protector JCE database (part of IDB, used by Advanced and Consolidated Scheduler) is very large
- Check the file size of dpjce-data.idb generated by omnidbutil -writedb prior to the upgrade
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Data Protector 10 – Updated Release A.10.10 (Build 134)
Data Protector A.10.10 (Build 134) has been released on September 17, 2018.
The new version is another full install to simplify the upgrade and installation process.This will be the default for all future Data Protector versions. Data Protector 10.10 does not require any previous version to install the latest version of Data Protector in a new environment. Direct upgrades from Data Protector 8.1x. 9.0x, 10.0x to version 10.10 are possible – there is no need to install Data Protector 10.00 or 10.0x as an upgrade step.
Data Protector 10.10 is a fully featured Media Kit and therefore currently not available in the Software Support Online (SSO) Portal for download.
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Data Protector 9 – updated support timeline
On Aug 01, 2018, Micro Focus has adjusted the support timeline for Data Protector 9.0x once more. All dates have been extended by 6 months, so the committed support for Data Protector 9.0x ends instead of the Dec 31, 2018 now on Jun 30, 2019.
For a quick overview all dates are visualized in the following figure.
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Webinar [en] – What’s New in Data Protector v10
Micro Focus presents a webinar how to better protect applications across legacy and modern platforms, use analytics to track and manage SLAs and improve the security of their backup to mitigate the risk of cyberattacks when upgrading to Data Protector 10. To attend the webinar a free registration at BrightTALK™ is required.
Wednesday, 17.07.2018 um 5:00 am (UTC+2/MESZ)
All details as well as the option to register can be found in the following BrightTALK announcement.
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