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trainman671
Level 2
10 years ago

Legacy Solaris 8 Client Support

We are currently running NetBackup 7.5 master/media server and are backing up 3 legacy Solaris 8 systems with the Netbackup 6.5 client. We would like to move forward to NetBackup 7.6. Since 7.6 no lo...
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  • CRZ's avatar
    CRZ
    10 years ago

    Technically, NO 7.x supports 6.x clients anymore (including in your current setup with 7.5), but that doesn't mean it won't work.  I can't say it WILL work for sure, and we definitely couldn't offer any support for it, but I suspect it would still work.

    If it DOESN'T work, you're probably looking at NFS mounts from your Solaris 8 systems to something that DOES have a 7.x client on it, which is a giant pain and might be super slow but isn't impossible.

Marianne's avatar
Marianne
Level 6
10 years ago

Not short-sighted. Realistic and fair.

You cannot expect Symantec to support an OS that is no longer supported by the OS vendor.

I believe that CRZ has provided you with a workable, supported solution in the form of NFS mounts.