Hi James,

We are currently working the client support issue with Veritas.
We are very disappointed that NetBackup is weak in the support
of legacy clients.  NetBackup 3.4 supports clients supported
by NetBackup 3.2.  However, be careful to capture the client
code on NBU 3.2, since you may need to reinstall your Solaris 2.5.1
client at some point in the future.  Here's a work-around.  While
you have NetBackup 3.2 on your system, cpio or tar the
/usr/openv/netbackup/client/Solaris/Solaris2.5 directory and
put it in a safe place.  After the upgrade to NetBackup 3.4,
restore the Solaris2.5 directory to its original location.
Solaris 2.5 will once again show up in the GUI.

Please help us to impress upon Veritas how important it is to
support our legacy clients.  Thanks.

        Leo Labonte
        AT&T

-----Original Message-----
From: James Laurie [mailto:jlaurie AT csu DOT org]
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 1:43 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 3.4 backup of client running Solaris 2.5.1


I recently received my copy of NBU 3.4 Datacenter (finally). I noticed
that Solaris 2.5.1 and older are not supported.
I'm currently using NBU 3.2 (with all my clients at 3.2) Some of my
clients are using Solaris 2.5.1 (because of legacy application
requirements). Does this mean that if I upgrade to NBU 3.4 that I will
be unable to backup these clients which are running Solaris 2.5.1?
Has anyone else encountered this? Would I be able to keep these clients
at 3.2 and backup that way or is the OS the issue?
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