We have had nightmares. And, that might even should be in CAPS, 
underlined, and in bold.

Best to upgrade them all.

Most 3.4 clients appear to fail. You can't even use tools like 'bpdir' 
on them after the upgrade.

Interestingly, some Mac 3.4 clients do seem to work.

But, at least 90% will fail if less than 5.0 (or 4.5 MP5?).

HTH

Cheers!

--Chris


>Jonathan
>Cannot comment on 6.0 and 3.4 compatability, but I think I do recall a user
>who had issues with 3.4 client and I am sure they said they were using
>version 6.0 of NBU and it was NOT working - getting constant failures.
>
>Damn!! Wish I knew where that email was !! Anyhow, for 5.1 I can confirm it
>works, though not supported.
>
>I am almost willing to stick my neck out and say you will probably be best
>to upgrade - unless I was having a bad dream, I am sure someone posted on
>here that there was a problem with 3.4 talking to 6.0
>
>Regards
>
>Simon Weaver
>3rd Line Technical Support
>Windows Domain Administrator 
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>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:JMARTI05 at intersil.com] 
>Sent: 12 December 2006 16:26
>To: NB List Mail
>Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 compatibility w/ 3.4 Clients?
>
>
>I'm implementing 6.0 here and I'm wondering how critical it is that we
>upgrade *every last client* to 4.5+ !?  We only purchased a limited number
>of 6.0 clients, most of our machines are 4.5 or 5.1.  But what about the
>3.4s?  I know they aren't supported, but will it work?  I don't mind
>spending time upgrading these machines, but many of them are more hassle
>than their worth IMO.  If I can get backups of them with the 3.4 client,
>many will be replaced within the next year or so.  Anyone even try this?  I
>don't mind spending the time upgrading the 4.5s and 5.1s to 6.0 for critical
>servers, but I've got 30 machines that sit around not doing much of
>anything.  Their probably not worth backing up, much less getting an outage
>for client upgrade. =P
>
>-Jonathan
>
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