no, a valid 3.4 license key will work under 4.5
At 5:16 PM -0400 8/2/02, Ajay Sharma wrote:
>Do you also need new license keys to upgrade from 3.4 to 4.5?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ryan Anderson [mailto:Ryan.Anderson AT udlp DOT com]
>Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 12:22 PM
>To: ksavage AT mail.sdsu DOT edu; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] newbie questions - upgrade to 4.5
>
>
>Sun is really useless when it comes to NBU licensing. You better dig up
>your documents proving that you paid your maintenance and are entitled
>to license keys, elevate it up within Sun, and get your local Sun SE
>involved with your manager's help (pressure). I had to do this for
>months before getting my 3.4 keys. Once you get the 3.4 keys, it would
>be a good time to switch once your renewal is due. Funny how they are so
>organized in renewing, but so piss-poor in getting license keys... Sun
>does great hardware and OS support, they're NBU support really makes
>VERITAS look bad.
>
>3.4 requires a license key, and you will need to upgrade to 3.4 before
>upgrading to 4.5.
>
>RCA
>
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>Ryan C. Anderson
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>>>> Ken Savage <ksavage AT mail.sdsu DOT edu> 08/02/02 01:40PM >>>
>I've inherited a Netbackup enviroment and am in the process of
>upgrading
>it. The upgrade is from a old server/Solaris 6/NBU 3.2 to a new
>box/Solaris 8/NBU 4.5. I've successfully completed to the move to the
>new
>server/Solaris 8 along with the lastest patches for NBU 3.2. Now for
>the
>NBU upgrade. Must I first upgrade to 3.4 before 4.5 ? 4.5 requires a
>
>license key, does 3.4 ? I didn't need a license key for 3.2 and I
>don't
>have one ! I am on maintenance and would have thought that a license
>key
>would come with the new media ??? We get NBU from SUN and not directly
>
>from Veritas, SUN has been useless so far. And yes, I have not yet
>read
>the NBU documentation.
>Thanks, Ken
>
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