On 12/12/2006 12:10 PM, Christopher Jay Manders wrote:
> I have been having just loads of fun with this upgrade, since here we 
> have only limited access to client machines.
> 
> A 'drag' might even summarize the whole 6.0 experience.
> 
> EMM did not upgrade nicely, so all of our NDMP backups have been hosed 
> up, plus Vault settings were hosed up to the point that nbvault would 
> not ever start. Then combine in the new 'well documented' feature of not 
> supporting older than old clients (for the record we note that we have 
> blissfully had no problems with 3.4 clients [such as for Mac8&9, Solaris 
> 2.5.1,2.6, HP/UX10.20, Windows95.98] in our previous 5.1 environment) 
> and we have a 'bad month' of lots of overtime effort... Our group has 
> discussed it and we have to term the experience as a 'downgrade' so far, 
> even though there are nice features in 6.0 as advertised. :(
> 
> So far, the cost for the upgrade has been more than any other (3.4->4.5, 
> 4.5->5.0, or 5.0->5.1).
> 
> It will be another month before I am over the upgrade.
> 
> And another month before I am caught up on sleep. ;)
> 
> I think this is the last 'upgrade' that we do. The next one will be from 
> scratch or not at all..with eyes wide shut. 8-)
> 
> I hope others have had a better time than we have. The Vault fix alone 
> was enough to cause grey hair...

The EMM upgrade caused major grief for a bunch of customers for which 
the environment wasn't valid in the first place.  Given that you were 
running 3.4 and have been upgrading the whole time, there's a good 
chance you either broke some rules, took a shortcut you should not have 
taken over the years, or corrupted one or more of your various databases 
somewhere along the lines.

The presentation from Symantec I went to last week compared the 6.0 
upgrade to an "heart, lung, and kidney transplant".  I was tempted to 
speak up and say "without anesthesia" but I held my tongue :-).  They 
also said they wouldn't do that again.

The upgrade was definitely a hard pill to swallow but I do think that 
after MP4, we're back on a normal track again.  Those still at 5.x need 
to fix their databases *before* they upgrade, but after that at least 
they won't have some of the pain some of us have felt through MP3.  And 
it was major pain...

        .../Ed
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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