Re: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable?

Lol. Thanks for the feedback and for getting the bugs out for us, over the years.

From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 5:45 AM
To: King, Cheryl
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Is NBU v6.5.1 stable?

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

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