They're not saying it's a bug.  They're saying:

"Support for Oracle version 11g R2 is available in NetBackup 7.0 and
planned for NetBackup 6.5 Release Update 6 (6.5.6) scheduled second
quarter of 2010."  

So the "fixes" are actually backports into older NBU versions prior to
the NBU versions that will "support" 11gR2.

Since 5.1 is EOL you're not likely to get a fix for it.   Since they
also say:

"Attempting to backup Oracle version 11g R2 without these fixes will
result in the failures below:"

It means you're not going to be able to backup 11gR2 with 5.1.

Also 6 was a major change from 5.1 so assumptions about things being
broken in 6 being broken the same way in 5.1 aren't necessarily valid.
Early 6 had a quite a few bugs that 5.1 didn't and 6 allows for things
that 5.1 didn't.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Nate
Sanders
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 4:09 PM
To: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] RMAN 11.2 and Netbackup bug

A coworker is doing testing with RMAN/Oracle 11.2 and Netbackup 5.1MP6.
She came across a bug that exists in NBU6.5 so I'm going to guess it
exists in 5.1 as well. The bug is here:
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/337527.htm -- I'm going to
assume this is and will remain unfixed in 5.1 and  is specific to Oracle
11.2 support, which doesn't sound like it exists even in 6.5 or 7 yet.
I'm just trying to put together information for management.

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