On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 10:12:46AM -0400, Steve Jenkins wrote:
> Regarding the thread going around concerning bpsched crashing, I
> believe I'm having similar issues and as such will begin thinking
> upgrade.  I'm currently running on HP-UX, but our general direction
> for new apps lately has been solaris.
>  
> Anyone got an opinion as to whether I should stay on HPUX when I
> upgrade, vs. going with a Solaris box?

First, renaming a master server is not supported.  Migrating to a new
platform is not supported (although I suspect that moving the master
server files from HPUX to Solaris will probably work).

I've heard that Solaris is the primary development platform at Veritas -
the code is developed there first, and then it's tested on the rest of
the Unixes.

If it was me, and I was already comfortable with NetBackup on HP-UX and
wanted to upgrade the server, I'd buy a new HP-UX box and not migrate.
In this situation, you're not deploying a new app - you're just
upgrading the server for an existing app.  If it works for you, don't
introduce more risk by moving to a new platform.

We were asked to look at Linux as a master even though our aging master
was Solaris.  It wasn't too much of a fight, but we bought a new V490
and stayed with Solaris.

-- 
Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org