Hi Simon,
It was indeed me. :-)
I have been having just loads of fun with this upgrade, since here we
have only limited access to client machines.
A 'drag' might even summarize the whole 6.0 experience.
EMM did not upgrade nicely, so all of our NDMP backups have been hosed
up, plus Vault settings were hosed up to the point that nbvault would
not ever start. Then combine in the new 'well documented' feature of not
supporting older than old clients (for the record we note that we have
blissfully had no problems with 3.4 clients [such as for Mac8&9, Solaris
2.5.1,2.6, HP/UX10.20, Windows95.98] in our previous 5.1 environment)
and we have a 'bad month' of lots of overtime effort... Our group has
discussed it and we have to term the experience as a 'downgrade' so far,
even though there are nice features in 6.0 as advertised. :(
So far, the cost for the upgrade has been more than any other (3.4->4.5,
4.5->5.0, or 5.0->5.1).
It will be another month before I am over the upgrade.
And another month before I am caught up on sleep. ;)
I think this is the last 'upgrade' that we do. The next one will be from
scratch or not at all..with eyes wide shut. 8-)
I hope others have had a better time than we have. The Vault fix alone
was enough to cause grey hair...
Anyway, I plan to have several beers to remedy my headache one day soon.
Happy Christmas!
--Chris
>Ahhhh!! It was you Chris! Wasn't it yourself that sent out an email a few
>weeks back with problems?
>
>Regards
>
>Simon Weaver
>3rd Line Technical Support
>Windows Domain Administrator
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christopher Jay Manders [mailto:cjmanders at lbl.gov]
>Sent: 12 December 2006 16:56
>To: WEAVER, Simon
>Cc: 'Martin, Jonathan (Contractor)'; NB List Mail
>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 compatibility w/ 3.4 Clients?
>
>
>
>We have had nightmares. And, that might even should be in CAPS,
>underlined, and in bold.
>
>Best to upgrade them all.
>
>Most 3.4 clients appear to fail. You can't even use tools like 'bpdir'
>on them after the upgrade.
>
>Interestingly, some Mac 3.4 clients do seem to work.
>
>But, at least 90% will fail if less than 5.0 (or 4.5 MP5?).
>
>HTH
>
>Cheers!
>
>--Chris
>
>
>
>
>>Jonathan
>>Cannot comment on 6.0 and 3.4 compatability, but I think I do recall a
>>user who had issues with 3.4 client and I am sure they said they were
>>using version 6.0 of NBU and it was NOT working - getting constant
>>failures.
>>
>>Damn!! Wish I knew where that email was !! Anyhow, for 5.1 I can
>>confirm it works, though not supported.
>>
>>I am almost willing to stick my neck out and say you will probably be
>>best to upgrade - unless I was having a bad dream, I am sure someone
>>posted on here that there was a problem with 3.4 talking to 6.0
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Simon Weaver
>>3rd Line Technical Support
>>Windows Domain Administrator
>>
>>EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
>>Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
>>
>>Email: Simon.Weaver at Astrium.eads.net
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:JMARTI05 at intersil.com]
>>Sent: 12 December 2006 16:26
>>To: NB List Mail
>>Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 compatibility w/ 3.4 Clients?
>>
>>
>>I'm implementing 6.0 here and I'm wondering how critical it is that we
>>upgrade *every last client* to 4.5+ !? We only purchased a limited
>>number of 6.0 clients, most of our machines are 4.5 or 5.1. But what
>>about the 3.4s? I know they aren't supported, but will it work? I
>>don't mind spending time upgrading these machines, but many of them are
>>more hassle than their worth IMO. If I can get backups of them with
>>the 3.4 client, many will be replaced within the next year or so.
>>Anyone even try this? I don't mind spending the time upgrading the
>>4.5s and 5.1s to 6.0 for critical servers, but I've got 30 machines
>>that sit around not doing much of anything. Their probably not worth
>>backing up, much less getting an outage for client upgrade. =P
>>
>>-Jonathan
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