Media and Master servers must be at the same level.

I know you can share a library between multiple masters, just set up the
media manager part of it like a media server and the NBU part of it like a
master, but I have never tried that with two different versions of NBU.  

I can't say it will work or it will be supported.  The safest thing to do is
to get a stand alone tape drive or stacker for the win2k backups, or upgrade
everything.

Sorry,

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Dwyer [mailto:dfdwyer AT tecoenergy DOT com]
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 8:30 AM
To: hskelly AT colltech DOT com; stevew AT colltech DOT com;
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] RE: RECOVERY: sharing library between 3.4 and 3.2
media server?


Or at the very least, as I understand it, you can have a Master server at a
higher level than the media server but not the other way around.

Regards,
Dennis


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>>> "Steve White" <stevew AT colltech DOT com> 03/09/01 07:11PM >>>
You can not run a 3.4 media server with a 3.2 master, it will not work, and
if it somehow does, it will be unsupported by Veritas and probably won't be
able to restore.

All media and master servers must run the same version of the application.

Sorry :-)

Steve

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com]On 
Behalf Of Harold Skelly Jr.
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 3:52 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
Cc: recovery AT colltech DOT com 
Subject: RECOVERY: sharing library between 3.4 and 3.2 media server?


A quick question to y'all.

scenario:
I have a robot library (say a 9740) which is controlled under a media server
running NBU 3.2.  The master is at 3.2.  Now I want to carve out a few
drives from the 9740 and put them on a second media server running 3.4 to do
Win2K backups.

Which media server (the 3.2 server or the 3.4 server) should control the
robotics?
Will these media servers peacefully co-exist under the 3.2 master?

How about if I entirely upgrade the 3.2 media server to 3.4 and leave the
master
at 3.2?

TIA,
Hal

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