Hi Rodney,
                Do you have a requirement to use SCSI reserve /release.
If not you can turn off CDI and Networker 7.3.x is supported
On RHEL 3 and RHEL 4.

Thanks,

Vincent  

-----Original Message-----
From: Rodney Rutherford [mailto:rrutherf AT TRIPOS DOT COM] 
Sent: 16 January 2007 02:47
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Hardware and software upgrade, which version?

I wholeheartedly agree.  Especially if you are upgrading to the latest
7.3.x version of NetWorker, as there are lots of changes in regard to
supported platforms, not too mention all of the discussed issues with
it.

For example, in order to run NetWorker on Red Hat, you have to run RHEL
4 for 7.3.x, but you can only run RHEL 3 for 7.2.x.

In my case, I built my new server with RHEL 4 and 7.3 and tested that,
only to decide to ditch it and go with 7.2.2, which required me to also
downgrade to RHEL 3.  Of course, I then had to qualify RHEL 3.x with my
Dell hardware and EMC SAN before I could even test NetWorker.

After testing for a few weeks, I cutover my production backups to it,
and then held on to my old server (E280R/Solaris 9/NW 7.2.1) for a while
until I was 100% comfortable with the new config.

Rodney

Werth, Dave wrote:
> My approact on this is if I'm going to upgrade both the hardware and 
> software (OS & app) then I just do a clean install of the new software

> on the new hardware and keep the old backup server around for a while 
> until I no longer needed it for the immediate type of restores (about 
> 3 months in my case).
> 
> I keep a database of backups that's separate from Networker so I don't

> have to worry about keeping things in the Networker DB forever.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> David Werth
> Garmin AT, Inc
> Salem, Oregon
> dave.werth<at>garmin.com
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