On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:53:52 -0000 "Stephen Walsh" <Swalsh AT ssi DOT ie> wrote:

> A customer of ours has netbackup 4.5 datacentre - running on win 2k. 
> He also has a number of solaris servers, one of which is running 
> Solaris 2.5 - this CANNOT be upgraded to a later release. Has anyone 
> had any success in running 4.5 with the 3.2 client, which was I think 
> the last one to support solaris 2.5 ? Or any other suggestions on how 
> we might help address the issue...


Hi Stephen,
if you can nfs share the directories/filesystems from the 2.5 machine
to a supported client then you could back them up that way. However,
it's a hack which isn't supported by Sun or Veritas. We have come 
across some issues with a Solaris 2.5/nbu 3.2 client being in a class/
schedule of an nbu4.5 master server which were resolved by the customer
upgrading their client installation to a supported config.

so why is it that the solaris 2.5 machine cannot be upgraded?

best regards,
James C. McPherson
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