Dennis Dwyer wrote:
> 
> I posted this a while back and have continued to search but still I've found 
> no
> definitive information on how to obtain the latest and greatest client 
> software
> for NetWare clients being backed up by NBU 3.2GA. My clients are at least 2
> years old and the bpcd.nlm tends to abend my NetWare servers every once in a
> while. It's never the same server all the time and the frequency is completely
> random. Someone on this list pointed me to a current patch that did some 
> things
> with regard to NetWare but there is still no mention of the actual client
> software. I'm running NBU 3.2GA on a Sun E450 under Solaris 2.6 and the 
> NetWare
> clients are not downloaded to the Sun server during the install. I have to
> install each client individually, which leads me to believe, they will not be
> included in any patch package I get from Sun.
> 
> Anybody got any ideas? The chore of rebooting a couple of servers after my
> weekly FULL backups is getting kind of old now. I'd like to fix this and be 
> done
> with it. I'm planning on upgrading to NBU 3.4 later this year, but that won't
> help me in the here and now.
> 
> Regards,
> Dennis

I've downloaded and loaded updated NetWare NetBackup NLMs from the
download sections of VERITAS' website. In the 3.2 section under
'downloads' (http://support.veritas.com/menu_ddProduct_NETBACKUP.htm)
there are no patches posted anymore and the only thing NetWare related
are updated PDF files. I imagine you'd have to contact VERITAS for more
current 3.2 NetWare patches.  

For 3.4 I've downloaded NetWare patches from the downloads section at 
http://support.veritas.com/menu_ddProduct_NETBACKUPDC.htm. If you do
this, WATCH OUT. Just double-click the patch file to expand it in an
empty directory. From there DO NOT run 'setup.exe', it will willy-nilly
copy over all the NetBackup NLMs to every system you mapped to SYS:\ to
without any confirmation. Instead, just manually copy over the updated
NLMs as you would for a new installation.

You are missing out on a lot of fixes for NetWare NetBackup by not
upgrading to 3.4.


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