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Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to 6.5 or 6.0MP4
2007-10-26 13:56:49
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Normally I would agree with the wait until mp2
scenario, but this is not a .0 release...this is still built on the 6.0
platform. Not only that, after the issues with 6.0 I know that Symantec
took extra precaution with this release. That being said, I have come
across three bugs so far with 6.5. However, they are either minor or would
not effect that many people. The Windows Java GUI is hanging on host
properties...windows administration console works fine, The authorization GUI
for NOM will not open on the client's system...we only needed it to change the
default admin password and we were able to do that from the command line,
Staging to multiple tape drives is failing. This is the only big gotcha I
have seen so far and we are still trying to track it down. I doubt many
people stage to multiple drives so unless that effects you, it is not that big a
deal.
6.5 has some nice advantages that may be worth going
to...specifically around disk backups, integration with VTL, integration with
PureDisk, and Bare Metal Restore for free.
Overall, I have found it to be pretty stable so
far.
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare
Corporation
6.0 MP5 has two
significant bugs that I know of:
1. Compressed catalogs
cannot be read when browsing backups to be restored: You have to open a
support case and get a new bpdbm binary.
2. NDMP backups fail if
you have tuned Netbackup with NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS. You have to open a
support case get a new bptm binary.
Neil
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Cornely, David
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 9:52
AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to 6.5 or
6.0MP4
Well, I?d say got to
6.0 MP5 (not MP4) since it addresses some issues in MP4, specifically things
we?ve had issues with.
I?m always very
hesitant to move to any new software version of any product, be it Netbackup or
anything else.
But with Netbackup I?ve
learned not to touch it until at least MP2 is out ? clearly Symantec, like most
software companies, considers time to market more important than addressing all
bugs out of the gate so I strongly suggest 6.0MP5 unless there is a feature only
available in 6.5 that you absolutely must have? caveat
emptor.
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
alex.gerber AT sepracor DOT com
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007
09:10
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Upgrade to 6.5 or
6.0MP4
Hi
there,
I am looking for opinions
whether or not to go to 6.5 or 6.0MP4
Currently on
5.1MP6/Solaris ? Master/ Solaris, Linux, Windows,
Exchange, VM ? Clients/ Flashbackup, BareMetal,
Oracle raw partitions, - future options
Alex
Gerber
CISSP,
CISA
Senior UNIX Systems
Administrator
Sepracor
Inc.
p.
508.357.7445
f.
508.357.7777
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