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Re: [Veritas-bu] (no subject)

2008-02-22 18:40:06
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] (no subject)
From: "Randy Samora" <Randy.Samora AT stewart DOT com>
To: "JAJA (Jamie Jamison)" <jamisonj AT zgi DOT com>, <Chris.Romano AT lazard DOT com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:27:23 -0600

Don't sugarcoat it Jamie, Chris can handle the truth :)  By the way, the 6.0 Upgrade Pain You'll  Own  Until  Retirement or  Suicide or 6.0 UPYOURS, meets every Thursday night at 8.  I’m not only a member, I’m a survivor.  Wear your yellow and black ribbon.

 

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On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:09 AM, <Chris.Romano AT lazard DOT com> wrote:

 

  I have a question.  I am currently at 5.1 MP6 on Solaris.

 

  Does anyone have any recommendations on whether I should upgrade to 6.0 or

  6.5.1?

  What are the pros & cons for going directly to 6.5?

 

 

  Thanks,

  Chris.

 

            The pros of going to 6.5.1 directly from 5.1MP6 are that you're only doing one upgrade and that NetBackup 6.0 is garbage, the single worst version of the program I have ever worked with. NetBackup 6.0 is the Windows Vista of backup software. It has lots of features that sound really neat (hot catalog backups) but lots of those features don't work (hot catalog backups failing with type 41 errors, the pempersist problem, NDMP backup failures with 6.0MP5 and I'm sure we'll find more). Working with 6.0 makes me feel like an unpaid beta tester for Symantec, or worse, someone who was stupid enough to give Symantec money for the privilege of beta testing their software.

            If you go to any version of 6.0 plan on spending a lot of time on the phone with technical support and on installing super duper secret point patches from Symantec. An engineer with the VAR I work with said, the first time I called with in with a problem with 6.0 that 6.5.1 was incredibly solid and that it made the other versions of NetBackup look like "...they were made out of Tinker Toys by a bunch of retarded monkeys." I wish I had known this before I jumped to 6.0MP4 from 5.1MP5.

 

Jamie Jamison

 

 

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