Re: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to 6.0 MP4

2007-05-14 Thread Forester, Jack L
Something else to consider is that end of support for 5.x is in October.

 

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yeahwait for 6.5, that's what we are doing

 

--stuart

 



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Can anyone give advise on upgrading from NBU5.1 MP 4 to NBU6.0 MP4? 

TIA,
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to 6.0 MP4

2007-05-13 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:32:11PM -0500, Carl Mathews wrote: 


We are given the bpexpdate command to expire images.
Many time that command has be recommended by the list.
How should we expire images and keep the catalogs in sync?
Does it take more then bpexpdate?

For Example:

#bpexpdate -m R50023 -d 0

   -m = mediaID
   -d = 0 days

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to 6.0 MP4

2007-05-12 Thread Darren Dunham
 We are given the bpexpdate command to expire images.
 Many time that command has be recommended by the list.
 How should we expire images and keep the catalogs in sync?
 Does it take more then bpexpdate?

That should do it.  Is there something that you're worried about?

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[Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to 6.0 MP4

2007-05-10 Thread Mike Wigington
Can anyone give advise on upgrading from NBU5.1 MP 4 to NBU6.0 MP4? 

TIA,
Mike Wig



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Re: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to 6.0 MP4

2007-05-10 Thread Liddle, Stuart
yeahwait for 6.5, that's what we are doing

 

--stuart

 

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Can anyone give advise on upgrading from NBU5.1 MP 4 to NBU6.0 MP4? 

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to 6.0 MP4

2007-05-10 Thread Kenneth W Wilkinson
Good luck.

 

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yeahwait for 6.5, that's what we are doing

 

--stuart

 



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Can anyone give advise on upgrading from NBU5.1 MP 4 to NBU6.0 MP4? 

TIA,
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to 6.0 MP4

2007-05-10 Thread Jeff Lightner
Why?   I was under the impression 6.0 MP4 was fairly stable.  

 



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yeahwait for 6.5, that's what we are doing

 

--stuart

 



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Can anyone give advise on upgrading from NBU5.1 MP 4 to NBU6.0 MP4? 

TIA,
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to 6.0 MP4 [NC]

2007-05-10 Thread misha . pavlov
From what I've heard from Symantec and saw on this list, fresh install of 
NBU6 and import will work better.




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Re: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to 6.0 MP4

2007-05-10 Thread Liddle, Stuart
We have an environment that is under strict change control and if we are
going to upgrade we are going to wait just a bit longer for the version that
has more features in it.  Why go for 6.0 now, when you might want to do the
upgrade to 6.5 in just a few months?

 

--stuart

 

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Why?   I was under the impression 6.0 MP4 was fairly stable.  

 

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yeahwait for 6.5, that's what we are doing

 

--stuart

 

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Can anyone give advise on upgrading from NBU5.1 MP 4 to NBU6.0 MP4? 

TIA,
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to 6.0 MP4

2007-05-10 Thread Greenberg, Katherine (ISD, IT)
6.5 is GA in June, we're waiting too!



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yeahwait for 6.5, that's what we are doing

 

--stuart

 



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Can anyone give advise on upgrading from NBU5.1 MP 4 to NBU6.0 MP4? 

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to 6.0 MP4

2007-05-10 Thread Jeff Lightner
A few reasons:

 

A long time ago it became clear that waiting for the next thing was a
good way of never moving forward because something is always in the
pipeline.

 

The next thing is often called vaporware because all the bells and
whistles they tell you it is going to have vaporize (disappear) in the
actual release.

 

Vendors don't always meet expected (or even announced) release dates for
new software.

 

You might actually have cycles now to do it that you won't have in the
future.

 

You may be wishing to implement new hardware in your environment (e.g.
we're getting Data Domain) and want to understand any differences the
new 

software does to your existing hardware so you'll understand later what
was introduced by the new software and what was introduced by the new
hardware.

 

Given the major shift between 5.1 and 6.0 in the way NBU does things
upgrading to 6.5 later will likely not be as major a change (somewhat
like going from 4.5 to 5.1 wasn't that big a deal).

 

Anyway we're just preparing to take the plunge ourselves so I can't say
how easy it is.   My opinions are formed mainly by reading this forum
and by what our (not Symantec) vendor says about it.



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To: Jeff Lightner; Liddle, Stuart; Mike Wigington;
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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to
6.0 MP4

 

We have an environment that is under strict change control and if we are
going to upgrade we are going to wait just a bit longer for the version
that has more features in it.  Why go for 6.0 now, when you might want
to do the upgrade to 6.5 in just a few months?

 

--stuart

 



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To: Liddle, Stuart; Mike Wigington; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to
6.0 MP4

 

Why?   I was under the impression 6.0 MP4 was fairly stable.  

 



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yeahwait for 6.5, that's what we are doing

 

--stuart

 



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Can anyone give advise on upgrading from NBU5.1 MP 4 to NBU6.0 MP4? 

TIA,
Mike Wig

 



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Re: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to 6.0 MP4

2007-05-10 Thread Scott Jacobson
No way to avoid the data base migration/conversion from 5.x to 6.x unless it is 
a new install.
-sj

 Liddle, Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/10/2007 12:19 PM 

We have an environment that is under strict change control and if we are going 
to upgrade we are going to wait just a bit longer for the version that has more 
features in it.  Why go for 6.0 now, when you might want to do the upgrade to 
6.5 in just a few months?
 
--stuart
 


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Why?   I was under the impression 6.0 MP4 was fairly stable.  
 


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yeah*.wait for 6.5, that*s what we are doing
 
--stuart
 


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Can anyone give advise on upgrading from NBU5.1 MP 4 to NBU6.0 MP4? 

TIA,
Mike Wig

 

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to 6.0 MP4

2007-05-10 Thread Dave
Read all of the replies and had to laugh. 90% of the problems that came with
6.0 were because people didn't do their upgrades correctly and didn't RTFM
before pulling the trigger. They can only blame themselves, but hey, much
easier to blame the software instead of going to your boss and telling him
what you did wrong. 

 

The upgrade from 5.x to 6.0 is very straightforward provided you read and
understand what you are doing. The main/critical/important thing is to make
sure your catalog is completely, 100% clean before you upgrade so the new
EMM database will properly populate. This means you are running the NBCC
utility, sending the data to Symantec Support, doing what they tell you to
do, running NBCC again, sending output to Support etc (or having Consulting
come help you). You may have to go back to support a number of times to get
this done but it will be worth it. The extensive use of command line
functionality without knowing what you are doing is the main reason for the
catalogs being out of sync for what it's worth. Some of the things I read on
this list about oh, just do this to expire that pesky tape makes me
cringe. 

 

Symantec has provided a Portal that has information about what you MUST do
to upgrade to NBU 6.0 MP4.

 

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/285223.htm

 

Read the docs on the portal, understand them, do what they tell you to do
and you will be one of the many NBU customers who are running excellent
software with minimal problems. My recommendation - go to 6.0 MP4 now, learn
the new features and get yourself ready for the features of 6.5 MP1 when it
is released sometime in the Fall. (I never recommend jumping on software
till the first MP is released by that is just me).  

 

My .02. 

 

d. 

 

 

 

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Can anyone give advise on upgrading from NBU5.1 MP 4 to NBU6.0 MP4? 

TIA,
Mike Wig

 

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to 6.0 MP4

2007-05-10 Thread Jeff Lightner
Believe me I understand.   I worked for GSK on FDA validated systems.
Nothing like writing an 11 page change control just to turn on shell
history for users and having THAT be the shortest one you had to
write

 

I had to laugh when I heard people complain about SOX requirements.  If
they'd come from a FDA validation they'd have thought SOX was a walk in
the park.

 

I wasn't trying to convince you to move ahead - just answering the why
would you that you asked.   Planning around vaporware has never
appealed to me.

 



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Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 4:12 PM
To: Jeff Lightner; Liddle, Stuart; Mike Wigington;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to
6.0 MP4

 

Jeff,

 

I think you mis-understood my commentsour situation might not be
applicable to others.  

 

Since we have very strict change control for our systems (i.e. lots of
paperwork and lead time) and given that it will take us literally months
to get things planned, tested, approved, etc (to say nothing of getting
all of the existing clients up to version 5.1 so that we are not more
than 1 rev back from the new version)then there's really no
difference for us to go to 6.5 instead of 6.0.   In fact, if both are
available at the time that we decide to make the upgrade, then 6.5 will
be the better choice for us.

 

Now, if you are in a situation where you can quickly jump from 5.1 to
6.0 and then go to 6.5, then that's probably a good move given all of
the reasons that you mention below.  We are just not in that situation.

 

Our biggest delay in doing any upgrades is getting our client systems to
use the newer version of the NetBackup client so that we are all on the
same version of 5.1 BEFORE we do an upgrade to 6.x.  At last count we
had over 1700 clients and a large number of them were still running the
4.5 client.

 

--stuart

 



From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:51 AM
To: Liddle, Stuart; Mike Wigington; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to
6.0 MP4

 

A few reasons:

 

A long time ago it became clear that waiting for the next thing was a
good way of never moving forward because something is always in the
pipeline.

 

The next thing is often called vaporware because all the bells and
whistles they tell you it is going to have vaporize (disappear) in the
actual release.

 

Vendors don't always meet expected (or even announced) release dates for
new software.

 

You might actually have cycles now to do it that you won't have in the
future.

 

You may be wishing to implement new hardware in your environment (e.g.
we're getting Data Domain) and want to understand any differences the
new 

software does to your existing hardware so you'll understand later what
was introduced by the new software and what was introduced by the new
hardware.

 

Given the major shift between 5.1 and 6.0 in the way NBU does things
upgrading to 6.5 later will likely not be as major a change (somewhat
like going from 4.5 to 5.1 wasn't that big a deal).

 

Anyway we're just preparing to take the plunge ourselves so I can't say
how easy it is.   My opinions are formed mainly by reading this forum
and by what our (not Symantec) vendor says about it.



From: Liddle, Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:19 PM
To: Jeff Lightner; Liddle, Stuart; Mike Wigington;
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to
6.0 MP4

 

We have an environment that is under strict change control and if we are
going to upgrade we are going to wait just a bit longer for the version
that has more features in it.  Why go for 6.0 now, when you might want
to do the upgrade to 6.5 in just a few months?

 

--stuart

 



From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:12 AM
To: Liddle, Stuart; Mike Wigington; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to
6.0 MP4

 

Why?   I was under the impression 6.0 MP4 was fairly stable.  

 



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yeahwait for 6.5, that's what we are doing

 

--stuart

 



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Can anyone give

Re: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to 6.0 MP4 [NC]

2007-05-10 Thread Ed Wilts
From what I've heard from Symantec and saw on this list, fresh install
 of NBU6 and import will work better.

This is neither recommended nor practical in most cases.  With several
thousand tapes, an import will take *years*.

.../Ed

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