Looking more closely at the doc it appears that NB will "know" about
the NB 5.x media servers and I just run that command once for
compatibility, so it will work just fine with the NB media servers,
right?

On 4/3/06, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz.backup AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> In the upgrade doc it says:
>
> To configure 5.x media servers for compatibility with 6.0 environments
> NetBackup 6.0 provides backlevel support for media servers running
> NetBackup 5.0MP4 (or later) or 5.1. This enables you to upgrade some
> or all of your media servers to NetBackup 6.0 at a later time.
> However, you must modify the configuration slightly so version 5.x
> media servers work in the NetBackup 6.0 environment.
> 1. Run the nbpushdata -modify_5x_hosts command on the NetBackup 6.0
> master servers that administer the media servers that you want to
> remain at version 5.x.
> Note The command option is literally modify_5x_hosts, and uses the
> character x rather than a version number. Do not type either
> modify_50_hosts or modify_51_hosts.
> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbpushdata -modify_5x_hosts
> 60 NetBackup Installation Guide for UNIX and Linux
> Upgrading NetBackup on UNIX Servers and Clients
> 2. Repeat step 1 on any additional master servers that administer
> media server(s) you are not upgrading to version 6.0. You only need to
> run this command once on each applicable master server.
>
> So we just run: nbpushdata -modify_5x_hosts hostname1
>                        nbpushdata -modify_5x_hosts hostname2
>
> (after the nbpushdata -add)
>
> For each NetBackup media server that still resides on NB 5.x?
>
> Justin.
>