How about the clients ?  Do we need to upgrade all the Unix and NT clinets 
with 4.5 ?   I got a huge number of servers (around 1000).

Dayal
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On Fri, 17 May 2002 00:36:59  
 Niehaus, Michael T. wrote:
>I see - that certainly makes sense.  However, the sentence could be made more 
>clear by saying something like:
>
>"NetBackup 4.5 and later releases support mixed version numbers between a 
>master and its media servers (all of which must be running 4.5 or above).  
>NetBackup 4.5 will not support media servers running previous versions of 
>NetBackup such as 3.4.1."
>
>The way the sentence is worded, I could imply the following:
>
>"NetBackup 4.5 and later releases support mixed version numbers between a 4.5 
>master and its media servers."
>
>This is how I read it initially, making me think that the necessary support 
>for mixed versions was in the master server, not in both the master and the 
>media servers, making the media server version irrelevant.
>
>In any case, everyone on this list will now know better :-)
>
>It would also be good to point out (if it isn't already in the release notes) 
>that after you run the "ie5setup" program to install IE 5 (required on any NT 
>4 master or media server that doesn't yet have it) the machine will reboot - 
>the "Finish" button initiates the reboot, no questions asked.  Gotta love 
>Microsoft...
>
>-Michael
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Larry Kingery [mailto:larry.kingery AT veritas DOT com]
>Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 12:18 AM
>To: Niehaus, Michael T.
>Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] RE: upgrade from NB 3.4 to 4.5?
>
>
>The master and media servers must be brought to 4.5 at the same time.
>Probably the admin clients too, certainly if you want to use the
>activity monitor as it has gone through some architectural changes.
>
>The release notes state: 
>
>  "NetBackup 4.5 and later releases support mixed version numbers
>  between a master and its media servers."
>
>What this means is that in the future you will be able to mix version
>4.5 (or higher) media servers and later version master/media servers.
>I don't know what the rules will be, e.g. if there will be a one level
>limit, etc.  The point is that you have to interpret "4.5 and later"
>in just the right way - 3.4.1 and earlier servers are not included.
>
>I knew the answer, and still had to read that section a few times.
>
>HTH,
>L
>
>
>Niehaus, Michael T. writes:
>> I just completed an upgrade (on Windows 2000) and get the feeling
>> I'm breaking new ground.  From what I read in the release notes, it
>> sounded like you could just upgrade the master server then do more
>> later, starting with the media servers, then the admin consoles, and
>> finally the clients.  Well, I did our master and two dedicated media
>> servers (which went fairly well), but then the remaining media servers
>> wouldn't work: the jobs using them failed with an error 43, unexpected
>> message received. 
>> 
>> Fortunately, I only had three other media servers, so I went ahead
>> and upgraded those too, which cured that problem.  At that point,
>> everything appeared to be working as expected: backup jobs ran (on
>> all the non-upgraded clients), restores worked fine, etc. 
>> 
>
>-- 
>Larry Kingery 
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