Re: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable?
2008-03-26 08:22:57
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:15 AM, King, Cheryl <cheryl.king AT intrado DOT
> com>
> wrote:
>
>> I haven't been on the list in about a year due to other work load. I now
>> find the version of NBU we're running is only supported until
>> 3/31/2008. We would like to upgrade to v6.5.1. Just checking for
>> opinions on that version.
>> Currently at v5.1 MP5 Solaris Master/Media, Win Media.
>>
>
> Hi Cheryl,
>
> We've been at 6.5.1 since shortly after it came out - we upgraded from
> 6.0MP5.
>
> Overall, 6.5.1 is fairly stable most of the time. We are experiencing some
> critical issues and we have open tickets with Symantec on this. We've had a
> few cases where it just tips over and we've lost a few days of backups as a
> result. We have a Solaris master/media, 2 Solaris media, plus a bunch of
> Windows media servers (some remote doing disk only and 1 local in an SSO
> environment).
>
> We've had some critical issues with pretty much every release so we're sadly
> getting used to this state of affairs. NetBackup has never had a release
> (for us) that we can just install and it all just works. On the other hand,
> we've got a small remote site with a Linux master/media and a couple of tape
> drives and it hasn't caused us any grief at all since it was upgraded about
> 6 weeks ago. That site just chugs along...
>
> I don't think our issues should prevent you from going forward but of course
> you do need to be careful.
>
> --
> Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
> mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
>
Sounds like 6.0MP6 is the place to be or a lot of testing with 6.5.1
should be performed first ;-)
Justin.
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