trainman671
10 years agoLevel 2
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...
- 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.