I would go to 6.5.  I have done a few upgrades already and things are fine.
I am not sure what you were reading, but Solaris 8 is still supported in
6.5.  See attached compatibility matrix.  As for Oracle, not sure I would
need to more details.  If there is a lot of data you might want to consider
making it a SAN client, but that is only supported to disk for this release.
It basically sends all of the data over fiber without having to make it a
media server. 


 
 
Reneé Carlisle 
ServerWare Corporation





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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Justin
Piszcz
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:52 AM
To: Dave Markham
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup upgrade 6 or 6.5

Would you deploy something that you didn't test regardless of support?

Justin.

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Dave Markham wrote:

> Thanks
>
> Im just reading through documentation and apparently Solaris 8 as a
> client isnt supported under NBU 6.5 so that rules that out as the
> infrastructure is still ruinning Sol8. Bit harsh me thinks.
>
> Thing is unless we go to 6.5 the customer will be paying lots for 6 and
> then in a years time when 7 comes out 6 will be no longer supported as i
> beleive NBU only goes 1 level back for support?
>
> Dave
>
> Justin Piszcz wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Dave Markham wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Has anyone got 6.5 yet? We are running NBU 5.0 MP7 on a predomintatly
>>> solaris platform. We are due to upgrade h/w and s/w and i was wondering
>>> was it worth going for 6.0 which seems to be used quite a bit by people
>>> now, or do we go to new 6.5 ?
>>>
>>> Also we have around 20 servers including a 2 node Sun Cluster ( attached
>>> to T3 arrays ) running oracle10g. Is there anything special which can be
>>> done with 6.5 or is it just worth still doing filesystem backups direct
>>> to Tape
>>>
>>> Thanks
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>> I'd recommend 6.0MP4 as I have not done any testing with 6.5 yet.
>>
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