I haven't seen any benefit to upgrading the clients. The nlm's are
newer, but don't seem to have any better performance. There are some
downsides to upgrading also.
For example, (this wouldn't apply in your case) if using otm, it isn't
supported on netware 6. I have some 5.1 servers with incidents open with
Veritas that get network timeouts with otm enabled. So far Veritas
hasn't been able to supply a fix for them. These problems occur with
both Netware servers and Windows 2000 servers.
If you are able to get good backups without otm, you probably won't see
any downside, but with otm, I wouldn't do it.
>>> "Jeff Kennedy" <jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com> 7/29/02 4:01:22 PM >>>
OTM has been disabled from the beginning; our boxes abended from the
start with OTM on. I was referring to multiple backup jobs coming
from
the same client; so netware1 doing an Offsite full and then a daily
incremental starts up and the server abends.
The master server is 4.5; is there a compelling reason to upgrade the
netware clients immediately? Major bug fixes, et al?
Thanks.
~JK
Bob Grabbe wrote:
>
> Do you mean more than one backup from the same netware server ? Or
more
> than one backup on the master to different clients ?
> Netbackup on netware is usually a pretty weak product. If it's more
> than one stream coming from the same netware box, this could cause
an
> abend from the client with otm stressing the cpu too much. It could
also
> depend on what patches (for netware and the client both) you have
> installed. I'm not familiar with 5.2, but 5.1, going from novell SP2
to
> SP4 causes a lot of problems with the netbackup client. The only
> reliable way I've gotten NW5.1 SP4 to backup is to disable otm.
>
> >>> "Jeff Kennedy" <jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com> 7/29/02 2:47:17 PM >>>
> My netware 5.2 servers abend if more than one backup is initiated at
a
> time; whether it's manual or scheduled makes no difference. Is this
> normal or are my servers exceedingly fragile?
>
> Master server = Solaris 7, NBU 4.5
> client = Novell 5.2 sp?, NBU 3.4.1
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Jeff Kennedy
Unix Administrator
AMCC
jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com
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