On 11/02, Ochs, Duane wrote: > Hi all, > Is there a rule of thumb for version interoperability ? > I'm prepping to upgrade my three TSM servers to 5.5.1.1 from 5.4.3.0 > > I'm going through and upgrading my clients to 5.5.*.* and found some W2K > boxes running 5.2.2 and some AIX 5.2 boxes running 5.2.2 . > > Neither of those are listed as being supported by the client TSM version > of 5.5. > Any suggestions for interoperability before I start researching the last > TSM version that supported W2K and AIX 5.2.2? > > Thanks, > Duane >
If you're only using the baclient (normal tsm backup client) there is practically no limit on version intermixing. I've hade customers running 3.x clients against 5.4 servers so 5.x against a 5.5 shouldnt be be a problem but YMMV. On Windows you _might_ get problems with systemstate on wildly different TSM versions but running TSM 5.3 client on Win2k (last supported version) works without a hitch against 5.5 server, even so for the 5.2/5.3 baclient on AIX. My rule of thumb is, try it, it will most probably work! Ofcourse this is is not supported but neither is win2k :) -km