Davina Treiber writes:
 > I don't quite understand why you are so apprehensive about this upgrade. 

i don't have a conscious reason for it. i've spent time with
the installation guide, the "technical guidance for upgrade" manual
and the newest admin guide. i just feel..... uneasy. 

 > There are a number of architectural changes but only two issues that 
 > would concern me about this jump.
 > 
 > Firstly nwadmin is gone after 7.2.x. and NMC is introduced. If you are 
 > wise you will have already familiarised yourself with NMC on your 7.2.x 
 > server.

i played with it for a day or so. it's a slow, bloated, fragile,
flakey turd. oh well, progress is not a uniform drift toward better
things. maybe this will be the motivation to finally learn nsradmin.
(just like when sun busted the gui to disksuite and everyone learned
the CLI...)

 > Secondly be aware that you must upgrade the storage nodes at the same 
 > time as the server. a 7.2.x storage node will not work with a 7.3.x or 
 > 7.4.x server.

i have none. just the server, tape drives and library.

rp

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