Folks,

Yes, this continues to be a weakness of NetBackup.
Product development races ahead and leaves legacy
backup clients behind.  We are having problems
installing both Solaris 2.5 and SunOS4 clients,
because we are at NBU v3.4.  We know that the
Solaris 2.5 and SunOS4 client code is compatible
with v3.4, because we run v3.4 with clients installed
under NBU v3.1.1 and v3.2.  We copied the Solaris 2.5
client directory from NBU v3.2, but we did not
copy the SunOS4 client directory from NBU v3.1.1.
Consequently, we can add no new SunOS4 clients
unless we set up a NBU v3.1.1 server and copy
over the client code.

We have requested that Veritas engineering put all
client code, including that for legacy clients,
on a ftp site in the form of a tar ball that we
can download.  This way we can pick and choose
without having to install older versions of NBU
ourselves.  The good news is that the old client
code appears to be compatible with NBU v3.4.

        Leo Labonte
        AT&T

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Kennedy [mailto:jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 12:47 PM
To: Buffington; Devon; Veritas-bu List
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Client support


I would agree with Ryan.  When we were installing our 3.4 setup we had
to jump through hoops just to get the 2.5.1 clients backed up. 
Apparently 3.4 doesn't "technically" support 2.5.1, at least there's no
client for it.  We had to create a 3.2 master and push it's 2.5.1
clients out, then set the real master in each.

~JK

RYAN ANDERSON wrote:
> 
> "Buffington; Devon" wrote:
> >
> > Will Netbackup 3.4 support backing up a SunOS 5.4 client?
> >
> > Devon Buffington
> 
> I highly doubt it. If there was at least a 3.2 client for SunOS 5.4, you
> could, but there isn't:
> 
>
http://support.veritas.com/dsl/lists/nbu_os_ddProduct_NETBACKUP_prod1_NBUDC3
2.htm
> 
> In upgrading NetBackup, I had one unsupported SunOS4 client that
> technically held us back from upgrading. I solved the problem by nfs
> mounting it to the NetBackup master and we now back it up regularly via
> NFS. It works, but I wouldn't attempt doing this for a lot of clients.
> 
> RCA
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