I called Veritas Tech Support about the 2_1_CLIENT_COMPATIBILITY
feature mentioned.  I was told that this would not bring
in all the desired flavors of client code.  In fact, Tech
Support told me that it shouldn't even appear in the 3.4
manuals.  This may explain why you can't find a complete
description.

        Leo

-----Original Message-----
From: RYAN ANDERSON [mailto:RYAN_ANDERSON AT udlp DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:22 PM
To: Labonte, L R (Leo), SITS
Cc: Jeff Kennedy; Buffington; Devon; Veritas-bu List
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Client support


Another tack I'm curious about is the ability to create
/usr/openv/netbackup/2_1_CLIENT_COMPATIBILITY for NetBackup 2.1 clients.
The Unix 3.4 install guide mentions it on page 21, and I've seen it
mentioned other places, though never fully described. Is anyone using
this? Then again, who has 2.1 clients? Would it work with 3.1 clients?


RCA

"Labonte; L R (Leo); SITS" wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Yes, this continues to be a weakness of NetBackup.
> Product development races ahead and leaves legacy
> backup clients behind.  We are having problems
> installing both Solaris 2.5 and SunOS4 clients,
> because we are at NBU v3.4.  We know that the
> Solaris 2.5 and SunOS4 client code is compatible
> with v3.4, because we run v3.4 with clients installed
> under NBU v3.1.1 and v3.2.  We copied the Solaris 2.5
> client directory from NBU v3.2, but we did not
> copy the SunOS4 client directory from NBU v3.1.1.
> Consequently, we can add no new SunOS4 clients
> unless we set up a NBU v3.1.1 server and copy
> over the client code.
> 
> We have requested that Veritas engineering put all
> client code, including that for legacy clients,
> on a ftp site in the form of a tar ball that we
> can download.  This way we can pick and choose
> without having to install older versions of NBU
> ourselves.  The good news is that the old client
> code appears to be compatible with NBU v3.4.
> 
>         Leo Labonte
>         AT&T

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