Most all know, but perhaps not well enough emphasized in this forum is that anyone whose thinking about migrating to 6.5.2, especially with Solaris infrastructures, should hold off and wait until the special 6.5.2.a release is available.
>>> "Navarro, Eddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 7/25/2008 6:21 PM >>> All, If you are running a Solaris NBU master server and are planning on upgrading to 6.5.2, think twice. We just upgraded and now backups simply do not work. Backups either do not start AT ALL when scheduled or manually started backups error out with code 230. Per the technote at http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/305609.htm Issue:- Upgrading NetBackup to 6.5.2 can cause scheduled or manually initiated backups to fail with STATUS 230. The policies are failing to update/convert the backup selection list from a UTF-8 to a local locale. All the policies are available in the NetBackup class/policy database. Existing policies can be updated and new policies can be created, however, they experience the same problem when started. The only backups that can be run successfully are User Backups. This problem has now been on systems running Solaris 8, Solaris 9 and Solaris 10. Evidence:- (NBPEM Log) 11/06/2008 10:52:42.273 [Debug] NB 51216 nbpem 116 PID:23387 TID:3 File ID:116 [No context] 1 [PolicyInfoConverter::FileListToSelectionList] Could not convert policy '<POLICY_NAME>' failed to convert filelist entry 0, error code=22 (PolicyInfoConverter.cpp:445) 11/06/2008 10:52:42.274 [Application] NB 51216 nbpem 116 PID:23387 TID:3 File ID:116 [No context] [Error] V-116-206 Failed to get policy <POLICY_NAME> information from database, 20 11/06/2008 10:52:42.274 [Application] NB 51216 nbpem 116 PID:23387 TID:3 File ID:116 [No context] [Error] V-116-266 call NBProxy::getRealAndVirtualPolicyByName failed to nbproxy with status 20 Solutions:- Option 1: Install NetBackup 6.5.3, search patch readme for reference 1317013. or Option 2: Uninstall NetBackup 6.5.2. NetBackup 6.5.1 or 6.5GA do not experience this problem. or Option 3: Contact Symantec support to request an emergency engineering binary fix for NetBackup 6.5.2, if NetBackup 6.5.3 is not yet available (NetBackup 6.5.3 is scheduled for August/September 2008). We have been on the phone with Symantec to obtain this *binary fix* since 6.5.3 isn*t out yet, and evidently this is phantomware as they are saying it is not yet available.
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