Comparison of all Netbackup Versions

Ah, a trip down memory lane. That surely would be interesting. I doubt that you'll find someone (even internal to Symantec) that has this information, but you might find a serial ppt collector out there :p

Do you even know when day 1 was? LOL

This is not what you asked for but just to give you an idea of the mammoth task you put out there

• In 1987, Chrysler Corporation engaged Control Data Corporation to write a backup software solution. ^[1] A small group of engineers (Rick Barrer, Rosemary Bayer, Paul Tuckfield and Craig Wilson) wrote the software. Other Control Data customers later adopted it for their own needs.
• In 1990, Control Data formed the Automated Workstation Backup System business unit.^[2] The first version of AWBUS supported two tape drives in a single robotic carousel with the SGI IRIX operating system. ^[1]
• In 1993, Control Data renamed the product to BackupPlus 1.0 (this is why many NetBackup commands have a 'bp' prefix). Software improvements included support for media Volume Management and Server Migration/Hierarchical Storage Management.
• In late 1993, OpenVision Technologies acquired the product and Control Data’s Storage Management 12-person team. This is why, on UNIX platforms, NetBackup installs into /usr/openv. During this time, OpenVision renamed Backup Plus to NetBackup.^[1]
• On May 6, 1997 Veritas acquired OpenVision Technologies, including absorption of the NetBackup product line.^[3]
• In 2004 Symantec acquired Veritas and NetBackup became a Symantec product.^[4] Also at that time, Symantec released NetBackup 6.0, the 30th version of the software.

There is no such documentation.

Symantec only publishes comparisons between versions that are currently supported. That will be version 7.0 and above.

See this Version Comparison matrix: 

http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/fact_sheets/b-symantec-netbackup-7.6-so-21304209.pdf

LOL

3.4.1 binary size

SPARC/UltraSPARC Solaris 2.6, 7, 8

Server 150 MB

Media Manager 34 MB

Client 15MB (d)

All :) 

I'm checking all your comments here. I will update shortly.. 

Hey Riaan

Thank you so much for your conisderation. I really ( two times) liked this post. 

Thank you Andy :) I'm preparing a ppt with all your notes/links

Thank you Again :)

All,

This discussion can be solved :)

Select Andy's post as he provided the info.