Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup upgrade 6 or 6.5

My Symantec SE said at one point that as soon as Microsoft Released Exchange 2007 that binaries would be available to support it in 6.0. That was before we paid for an upgrade to 6.0 a year ago. Six months ago our plans for Exchange 2007 got postponed so I haven't followed up or pressed this issue.

-Jonathan

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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup upgrade 6 or 6.5

Do you have a link to the document that you pulled that information out of?

Reneé Carlisle

ServerWare Corporation

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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup upgrade 6 or 6.5

MP6 will, according to this:

NetBackup for Exchange 2007

STATEMENT OF DIRECTION

Symantec Corporation intends to deliver support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 in NetBackup 6.0 and 6.5.

NetBackup 6.0

In SepQtr07, a special patch after 6.0 MP5 (not part of MP5) will support:

Database backup & recovery

Microsoft Cluster Server environments

This patch will support NetBackup 6.0 MP5 Windows 2003 x64 clients only, not NetBackup servers.

(When available, this document will provide instructions for obtaining the special patch.)

In 6.0 MP6, planned for DecQtr07, support will be added for:

Mailbox backup & recovery

Veritas Cluster Server environments

Support for other capabilities is available by upgrading to NetBackup 6.5.

NetBackup 6.5

In August 2007, NetBackup 6.5 GA supports:

Database backup & recovery

Microsoft Cluster Server environments

In 6.5.1, planned for DecQtr07, support will be added for:

Mailbox backup & recovery

Veritas Cluster Server environments

Local and off-host snapshot backups

VSS snapshot providers: Windows COW, VxVM, and HW Arrays (TBD)

The objective is to support the current NetBackup for Exchange capabilities with Exchange 2007.

In 6.5.2, planned for MarQtr08, support will be added for:

NEW Instant Recovery from snapshots for Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2003

In 6.5.3, planned for JunQtr08, support will be added for:

NEW Mailbox restore from a database backup

NEW Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008

NEW Backup & recovery of replicated Exchange databases

(via native Exchange Local or Clustered Continuous Replication)

Symantec Corporation is committed to serving the Microsoft Exchange market and offering our customers the

benefits of NetBackup enterprise data protection solutions. We welcome your feedback regarding this

announcement. Please contact your Symantec account representative for assistance.

This statement was last revised on August 7, 2007 and supersedes all previous statements.

These statements represent current development plans of Symantec Corporation. Plans are subject to change or cancellation

without notice. Reliance on this Statement of Direction is solely at the risk of the relying party and does not create any liability

or constitute an obligation for Symantec Corporation in any manner implied or assumed.

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Yes, but if you want to back up Exchange 2007, then you will want to use NetBackup 6.5. NetBackup 6.0 does not have support for Exchange 2007.

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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup upgrade 6 or 6.5

I would recommend upgrading to 6.0MP4 first, and get that working.
Let 6.5 stabilize for awhile before making that plunge. 6.5 was just released.

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Pepco Holdings, Inc.
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[Veritas-bu] Netbackup upgrade 6 or 6.5

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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