Additional upgrade information

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When you upgrade the backup-archive client, there is additional information to consider before you use the new client software.

Be aware of the following information when you upgrade a backup-archive client:

  • Windows operating systemsLinux operating systemsAIX operating systemsIf you are upgrading the client and it is installed on the same system as the IBM® Storage Protect server version 8.1.2 or later level, ensure that you halt the IBM Storage Protect server before you upgrade the client. This action will prevent the client installation process from forcing the system to reboot. After you upgrade the client, you can restart the IBM Storage Protect server.
  • Linux operating systemsOracle Solaris operating systemsIf you are upgrading from the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 7.1.2 or earlier backup-archive client on the Oracle Solaris operating system, you must uninstall any previously installed language packages before you proceed with the upgrade.
  • Mac OS X operating systemsFor Mac users, updates to the Mac OS X client contained in IBM Storage Protect 6.3, or newer versions, require you to consider the following items:
    • When you use the Mac OS X client that is provided in this release, ensure that the dsm.sys and dsm.opt files are encoded by using Unicode (UTF-8). UTF-8 encoding enables the use of characters from any language in the options files. If your dsm.sys or dsm.opt files were previously encoded as MacRoman (or anything other than UTF-8), open them in an editor like TextEdit and save them with UTF-8 encoding, and without the .txt extension. Your include-exclude lists can be encoded as either UTF-8 or UTF-16. For more information about using Unicode, see Considerations for Unicode-enabled clients.
    • IBM Storage Protect server file spaces that were created by Mac OS 9 clients cannot be managed by the Mac OS X client that was provided in IBM Storage Protect 6.3. Use q file node f=d on the server to list files stored for a node. Any Mac-platform files that do not start with a slash (/) were probably created by an older Mac client. You cannot restore or otherwise manage these files by using the Mac OS X client that is provided in this release. You can manage these files, but you must use a Mac client that is installed on a version 6.2.2 or older client node.
  • Windows operating systemsThe size of the buffer to record change notifications for a particular journal file system (DirNotifyBufferSize) has changed. The default value is 16 KB.
  • For a list of new and changed messages since the previous IBM Storage Protect release, see the client_message.chg file in the client package.