Mr Major said:
> Bob, I have to disagree with you, for once. 

It's okay; I'm not invested in it.  :-)  And thanks for the implied kudo.

> You can only use the java version with that same major revision; 
  and
> The java client is forward and backwards compatible within the same major
> revision - for the most part, there are things that may not work/populate if 
> the
> Master is at a higher level than the Java client.

I'm fine with that.  That "in my experience it seems backwards-compatible 
within all levels of 5.1, within all levels of 5.0, within all levels of 6.5" 
is what I at least _meant_ to convey with

> > IME, all patch/MP versions are backwards compatible within
> > that major version (5.1, 6.0, 6.5).  

> it is not backwards compatible to other revision levels (6.5 is
> not backwards compatible to 6.0 or lower, etc.). 
 
And that's the part I didn't know about (never tried it) but thought mightt 
work:

> It's possible, even likely, that each major
> version understands the previous versions 

Not as likely as I'd thought, apparently.  Now we know that it's possible, but 
not true.  :-)  Thanks for clearing that up, Rusty.


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Bob, I have to disagree with you, for once. You can only use the java version 
with that same major revision; it is not backwards compatible to other revision 
levels (6.5 is not backwards compatible to 6.0 or lower, etc.). The java client 
is forward and backwards compatible within the same major revision - for the 
most part, there are things that may not work/populate if the Master is at a 
higher level than the Java client. I made this suggestion for backwards 
compatibility at the users forum, but it didn't sound like there would be much 
work put into it as the new user interface will take care of this. 

As stated, installing them to separate directories does the trick when multiple 
java versions/patch levels are needed on the same workstation. 

If you are not able to change the install directory, edit this key in the 
registry to contain the path that you want to install to: 
HKLM\Software\VERITAS\NetBackup - java (NB-Java)\InstallPath 

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> Thanks, but I need to be able to support multiple 
> versions...like 6.0, 6.5, 6.5.2, and 6.5.3 as well as....

IME, all patch/MP versions are backwards compatible within that major
version (5.1, 6.0, 6.5).   b so that you could use, say, a
6.5 jdc to admin your 6.5 master and a 6.0 and a 5.x media server.
Install the 6.5.3 patch as recommended and tell us.

When in doubt, you can always install to separate directories

c:\program files\veritas\jav51
c:\program files\veritas\jav60
c:\program files\veritas\jav65

Note:  it used to be that you couldn't choose the windows installation
option to change the java admin console installation path if a version
was already installed to the default (c:\program files\veritas?); you'd
have to uninstall that one first.  Since then, I install each major
version to its own directory as above.

> Legato 7.x and Backup Express 2.3x and 3.x

Can't help you with that.



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