I just upgraded several versions of the NBU Client (3.4, 4.5 and 5.1) to
a NBU Master running 6.0.  It really is a mixed bag.  My goal was to
upgrade everything to at least 5.1 and I did eventually get that done
but in the mean time I migrated lots of clients with mixed versions.

Old System - 5.1 MP4 - versions 3.4, 4.5 and 5.1 all worked fine.

New Version - 6.0 MP4 -
Standard and Windows policies ran fine on 4.5
Oracle/RMAN was buggy on 4.5 / ok on 5.1
Exchange has a known issue with restores so they had to be upgraded to
6.0 (backups fine on 5.1)
None of the 3.4 clients run on 6.0 from the 10 or so I migrated.

-Jonathan


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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Whelan,
Patrick
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:40 AM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external); Carl Mathews;
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 5.1 Oct 2007 End of Support

Not supported or won't work? We are running some 3.4 clients with the
master at NBU 5.12MP6 and they work fine. Unfortunately we can't upgrade
the Solaris 2.6 clients so we are stuck with 3.4. Of course if they
won't work with 6.x then we can push them to upgrade or get rid of the
boxes. :)

Regards,

Patrick Whelan
NetBackup Specialist (Contractor)
COLT Telecom
Architect & Engineering
+44 20 7863 5243



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Simon (external)
Sent: 17 May 2007 15:25
To: 'Carl Mathews'; VERITAS-BU at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 5.1 Oct 2007 End of Support


If I understood correctly, older clients are not supported - I think 5.1
or higher is needed for 6.0!

My clients (some) run 3.4 and are not supported, and I cannot upgrade
them to the later version at this stage.

Hopefully they will be phased out in 2008.

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



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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Carl
Mathews
Sent: 17 May 2007 14:59
To: VERITAS-BU at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 5.1 Oct 2007 End of Support


We have Windows clients running NB_4.5. If will take some time to
upgrade the clients after the server has been upgraded  to NB_6.0. Does
anyone know if you can backup-up and restore 4.5 Windows clients with a
6.0 Solaris server?  Thanks Carl Mathews University of Arkansas

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>We still have a fairly busy 4.5 environment due to older OS versions so

>I can't see us moving off our 5.1 environment for a while ... this for 
>us is the "show-stopper" for not upgrading.


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