So when are they going to stop support for 5.1?????

Thank You,
Dennis Peacock
EBCA
Acxiom Corporation

 

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Wow....  I was a bit surprised to see they were already at mp6


 

 

 

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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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