Support of Windows Server 2008 with Netbackup 6.5

[nhkhj]

Hello,

We will soon install new servers on Windows Server 2008. Does anybody know if Netbackup 6.5 or 6.5.1 support this Windows version ?

Or do we have to wait 6.5.2 in March (or even 6.5.3 in June as read in different places) ?

I don't see an official statement from Symantec. If somebody has a link or more infos...

Thanks for the feedback.

Nico

[Stumpr2]

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GSTAR wrote:

Hello,

,,, as read in different places

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what other places?

[Seth_Bokelman]

For what it's worth, I spent about 5 minutes testing it on a Server 2008 box here, and didn't find any problems with 6.5.1, it reports the box as being Vista, but I was able to back up data.

[Stumpr2]

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Seth Bokelman wrote:
For what it's worth, .... but I was able to back up data.

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Were you able to do a simple restore?

What about a complete OS restore like in a DR situation?

[Nicolai]

Hi Nico

The latest I heard from support was that 6.5.2 is due June. I guess 6.5.3 is delayed as well.

Regards

Nicolai

[Seth_Bokelman]

We hadn't tested restore yet (it was on our to-do list, and we weren't near production yet with 08) until just now, we literally had just kicked the backup off yesterday in a quick 'n dirty test.  It appears that, NBU has an incomplete copy of the files on our 08 test box, despite giving us a 0 when the backup was performed.  At this time, I'll reverse what I said, and say that pending further evidence, I wouldn't trust my data on 08 boxes to NBU at this time. :)

[Stumpr2]

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Seth Bokelman wrote:
We hadn't tested restore yet (it was on our to-do list, and we weren't near production yet with 08) until just now, we literally had just kicked the backup off yesterday in a quick 'n dirty test.  It appears that, NBU has an incomplete copy of the files on our 08 test box, despite giving us a 0 when the backup was performed.  At this time, I'll reverse what I said, and say that pending further evidence, I wouldn't trust my data on 08 boxes to NBU at this time. :)

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Thank you.

[Seth_Bokelman]

This is from our Symantec SE:

"The latest information I find says NBU will provide GA support for WS2008 Clients and Media Servers in the 6.5.2 release and application/db agent support following in the 6.5.3 time frame.  The target date for 6.5.2 is April/May 2008."