Version 5.0MP2 (I don't have 5.1 installed) (Solaris 9, LTO1, L700)  
fixed a lot of v4.5 problems and adds lots of new goodies (although 
first looks and trials at disk staging and synthetic backups are totally 
underwhelming).

Unfortunately, for me it broke a lot more than it fixed and we're very 
unhappy with it.   Mysteriously queued jobs, tapes attached with no jobs 
active, status codes 213 and 196, and jobs going incomplete or failing 
after "end writing" in log are a few of the things we experience.  It 
has been a very labor intensive time.

Today I had a new one: at the end of a nearly 24-hour 158 gig backup of 
several file systems, a number of "bpbrm (pid=xxxxx) could not write 
FILE ADDED message to std err" messages appeared in the log and the job 
went to "Incomplete" status instead of finishing.  On resuming the job, 
it began from the beginning. ;-(    (The client is still at v4.5).

Maybe v5.0MP3 will be better or we'll find magic potion to correct 
something somewhere?!    Hope this helps, wayne

Glenn.Summers AT thehartford DOT com wrote:

>
> Currently, we are running NetBackup Datacenter 4.5 FP5. We are 
> thinking of implementing VSP and possibly upgrading to FP6 or v5.1. 
> I'm looking for any input I can find on the subject.
>
> Is it worthwhile? Does it work? Are there any problems you have 
> encountered?
>
> We have been having a number of SCSI reserve/release issues and a lot 
> of 84 errors lately as well. Are either of those addressed in the 
> newer releases?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Glenn Summers
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