We have done a lot of testing on Windows 2008 and found that yes even a 5.1 MP6 client will backup the server but will not restore anything.
You need the 6.5.2 client on the Windows 2008 server however your media/master servers can run on a downrev version, we only run 6.5.1 on our media and master servers as well as the 6.5.1 client on our 2003/linux/solaris servers. Personally I would be leaving 2008 on the shelf at the moment it needs a service pack or two!!!! Regards, Brendan Clover Information Technologist Systems Infrastructure University of South Australia Phone: +61 8 830 23641 Fax: +61 8 830 25800 Log your own service calls here: http://www.unisa.edu.au/helpdesk AskIT documentation and FAQs: http://www.unisa.edu.au/askit ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- This e-mail may be privileged and/or confidential, and the sender does not waive any related rights and obligations. Any distribution, use or copying of this e-mail or the information it contains by other than an intended recipient is unauthorised. If you received this e-mail in error, please advise me (by return e-mail or otherwise) immediately Message: 7 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:10:37 -0400 From: "Jeff Lightner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows 2008 Client To: "Ed Wilts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Martin, Jonathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Randy Samora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, veritas-BU <veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Backups directed to /dev/null would be incredibly fast and just as useful. :-) ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:45 PM To: Martin, Jonathan Cc: Randy Samora; veritas-BU Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows 2008 Client On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Martin, Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From what little testing I did here backups work but not restores. That doesn't sound very useful :-) It sounds to me like even if you did testing and it appeared to work, do you really, really want your production servers to have an unsupported backup configuration? It also sounds like if you only want to back on non-OS files, you'll be okay. You just need to have another plan if you wipe out the system disk. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Thank you. ---------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/pipermail/veritas-bu/attachments/20080819/ 297cfea3/attachment-0001.html _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu