Thomas, Tim wrote:
> According to Legato support, you are correct in that you cannot
> downgrade.  The databases are incompatible.  I have been told by Legato
> support that if we did downgrade, we would have to either scan in all
> our tapes as needed for restores or scan them all at once up front.
> This would be time consuming but hopefully, it would be a short term
> investment in time rather than the hours I spend daily troubleshooting
> 7.3.x.
>   

If you don't scan them up front, you are going to need to manually
handle tape recycling and relabeling, as those tapes won't be in your
media database any more.  I thought about it when we started having
serious problems with 7.3, but decided I get more value out of staying
at 7.3 and trying to fix the problems.  That could also be because I
have over 2200 volumes in my media database... :)

I just wish someone at Legato would whip out a tool to revert the
database.  It *could* be done (and I've asked for it several times as
part of the now 4 1/2 months of problems we've had with 7.3), but it's
not something they are willing to do.  I'm guessing it's not a resource
issue, as the code should just be a matter of using the existing code in
7.2.1 and 7.3 to read and write the data.  I think it's more an issue of
"if everyone downgrades we won't be able to debug/fix the problems".

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