08-01-2018 12:04 AM
Hi Team,
I am planning to upgrade my Solaris master server to 8.0 currently running 7.7.3, all my windows 2003 machines are running 5.1 client agent and backups are completing fine. I don't have 2003 test machine to check backup functionality ,I need to know whether my 2003 windows clientsworks with 8.0 master
08-01-2018 01:16 AM
Hello,
neither 7.7.x Master nor 8.0 Masters are supported with 5.x clients. You are lucky when it is working (BTW is it working for restores, too?).
Upgrade 2003 clients to 7.6.1 which is:
- last client version supported with Windows 2003
- supported with 8.0 Master
Regards
Michal
08-01-2018 04:59 AM
NetBackup 8.x uses PBX for communication and 5.1 does not have PBX, another thing to note is, client connect options have been depricated hence backups will fail.
08-01-2018 06:56 AM
HI Michal,
Thanks for the suggestions, we never tried restore on 5.1 agent and we will try installing 7.6.1 client agent hopefully will have successful back up with 8.0 master.
08-01-2018 06:58 AM
Does 7.7.3 also uses PBX ? backups are workign for 5.1 client agent with 7.7.3 master
08-01-2018 07:02 AM
7.7.3 uses PBX but also allows connect options to directly use BPCD. Conncet options are depricated in 8.x hence it needs PBX on client.
08-02-2018 08:58 AM
Hi Anshu,
Thanks for the inputs , can you please confirm from which netbackup version veritas started using PBX so that I can use those versions for legacy operating systems
08-02-2018 01:37 PM
08-03-2018 07:32 AM
Hi Marianne,
We have many clients with Windows 2000,Windows 2003 ,Solaris 6/7/8/9/10 and RedHat Linux 6. I wanted to know the latest netbackup release which support these operating systems.
08-03-2018 10:39 AM - edited 08-03-2018 10:41 AM
@chethan2365 That can rely on several things. What's the CPU architecture of the OS's? Is it the Windows 2003 Server SP1 or R2? I think it would be better if you revied the Software Compatability Guides that NetBackup releases. If you have any questions about that info, we would be more than willing to help you.
Here is the 7.0 - 7.6.x Compatibility Guide.
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000040842.
08-04-2018 09:00 AM
08-06-2018 01:08 AM
Hi Krutons,
Thanks for the reply we have both 32 bit nd 64 bit architecture with different SP. However earlier I had a look on the below guide.
Here is the 7.0 - 7.6.x Compatibility Guide.
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.00004084
I am hoping that backup should work after upgrading master to 8.0, if backups start to fail for the client agents 4.5 and 5.1 , I will try moving all these client agents to last supported release of the resepective OS from veritas.