Re: [Veritas-bu] how fo fool nbu client versions

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:21 PM, <Rusty.Major AT sungard DOT com> wrote:

Heading off topic, but for the benefit of those who had a heart-attack thinking they were out of support with 5.1 clients as they ARE supported with NBU 6.x Master/Media servers.

Change ARE to WERE. All of 5.1 has already reached end of support life so although the original combination was supported, it isn't any longer. That means it will very likely work but don't call Symantec if it doesn't. We've got another couple of years for 6.x though: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/332616.htm

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Re: [Veritas-bu] how fo fool nbu client versions

I have tested this on some proprietary servers of my own, and the 5.1 client works with 7.0, although not supported. If you are running any 6.5.x with a 5.1 client, that isn't supported either, so no harm, no foul. From what I understand, the code base isn't that different from 6.5 to 7.0, and that is why it works.

Actually, the UNIX code base from 6.5 to 7.0 is actually quite different since 32-bit OS releases were dropped and 64-bit was added. I asked one of the developers how much actually had to change for 64-bit and he said it was a lot more than you would expect. A lot of very old legacy code was tossed and replaced with current code. Interestingly enough, I haven't heard of any 7.0 Unix client issues related to the 64-bit upgrades.

.../Ed

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