> :-)  Always a good idea to get confirmation that it *actually* works in
> the wild, rather than just that the developers believe it should work,
> in theory.
> 
> The fact that they explicitly listed it as "supported" is a strong
> statement, though.

And the answer is ... YES. :-)

I created a 8.0.1.5 storage node (AFTD; it was a VM, and that was easiest 
type of SN to create). And it backed up just fine, no errors shown.

So this weekend I am going ahead and updating all of my storage nodes to 
8.0.1.5. Then next week (hopefully) I will rename my 7.6.2 server, then 
upgrade it to 8.0.1.5 as well.

Then I will get around to rolling out the update to the regular clients.