Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to 6.5 or 6.0MP4

6.0 MP5 has two significant bugs that I know of:

1. Compressed catalogs cannot be read when browsing backups to be restored: You have to open a support case and get a new bpdbm binary.

2. NDMP backups fail if you have tuned Netbackup with NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS. You have to open a support case get a new bptm binary.

Neil

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Cornely, David
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 9:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to 6.5 or 6.0MP4

Well, I’d say got to 6.0 MP5 (not MP4) since it addresses some issues in MP4, specifically things we’ve had issues with.

I’m always very hesitant to move to any new software version of any product, be it Netbackup or anything else.

But with Netbackup I’ve learned not to touch it until at least MP2 is out – clearly Symantec, like most software companies, considers time to market more important than addressing all bugs out of the gate so I strongly suggest 6.0MP5 unless there is a feature only available in 6.5 that you absolutely must have… caveat emptor.

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of alex.gerber AT sepracor DOT com
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 09:10
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to 6.5 or 6.0MP4

Hi there,

I am looking for opinions whether or not to go to 6.5 or 6.0MP4

Currently on 5.1MP6/Solaris – Master/ Solaris, Linux, Windows, Exchange, VM – Clients/ Flashbackup, BareMetal, Oracle raw partitions, - future options

Alex Gerber

CISSP, CISA

Senior UNIX Systems Administrator

Sepracor Inc.

p. 508.357.7445

f. 508.357.7777

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