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Stream-Hunt's avatar
Stream-Hunt
Level 2
2 years ago

Does the NetBackup 7.5 client support CentOS 7?

Hey all! I know this is a question about an older version of NetBackup, but unfortunately the documentation is rather unhelpful - all of it points me to Symantec knowledge base articles that, obviou...
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  • davidmoline's avatar
    davidmoline
    2 years ago

    Hi Stream-Hunt 

    Did you check the SCL before asking? If you had you would have seen that support for Centos 7 only became available from NetBackup 7.6.1.1.

    There is also the minor fact that NetBackup 7.5 is well out of support anyway - so if you can make it work I'd say go for it (you will not get any offical help if things go wrong).

    David

Stream-Hunt's avatar
Stream-Hunt
Level 2

I could not find anything that showed that information, despite looking for a good while! I guess I just didn't know where to look. :p

But that is good information nonetheless, thanks for the help!

davidmoline's avatar
davidmoline
Level 6
2 years ago

Hi Stream-Hunt

The way to (hopefully) find the information is via the Software Compatibilty List (SCL) for the particular NetBackup version you are enquiring about. The starting place is normally here where all NetBackup compatibility lists can be found (https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100040093). So in your case, select the SCL for NetBackup 7.7 (as anything below 7.7 has reached EOL it is nolonger shown). Then drill down into the operating system section relevant - here's the direct link to Centos https://download.veritas.com/resources/content/live/OSVC/100046000/100046611/en_US/nbu_77_scl.html?__gda__=1669457416_f01b42461963c0e6d683acfc06599072#operating_systems-centos - on the right side of the table it gives the minimum NBU version that supports the OS (and also in the table may be notes that can be relvant).

Hope this helps. I suspect if you try to install NetBackup 7.5 on Centos 7 it will work (although the installer may throw a wobbly about the Centos version).

Cheers
David