[I exchanged a few out-of-band emails with John about this, and anticipate that he'll post when he's done with his testing, but he suspects a different part of his environment than the 6.5.3.1 update at this point.]
For what it's worth, not that I tested every corner case, but I just backed up 17 RHEL clients through my test environment at 6.5.3, saw ~ 40 MB/s aggregate throughput (to a disk STU), dropped 6.5.3.1 on the master, and reran the test with the same results. (I'm not pushing the client update just now because those are actually clients from a production environment.) So if others were, as I was, alarmed by John's report and back-pedaled on updating, you're probably safe to (do your own testing! and then) go ahead and upgrade. -- gabriel rosenkoetter Radian Group Inc, Senior Systems Engineer gabriel.rosenkoet...@radian.biz, 215 231 1556 ________________________________ From: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 12:55 PM To: 'Michitsch, John' Cc: 'VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 Release Update 3 Hotfix 1 (6.5.3.1) Wow. Can you get some solid metrics on the speed drop? Is it only Exchange clients that are affected? Are these clients, SAN clients, SAN media servers, etc? Have you opened a case with Symantec over the issue yet? (Yes: I'd recommend updating the client software. As I believe I mentioned on list, the security vulnerability, part of what 6.5.3.1 corrects, affects all members of your NetBackup system, including clients.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter Radian Group Inc, Senior Systems Engineer gabriel.rosenkoet...@radian.biz, 215 231 1556 ________________________________ From: Michitsch, John [mailto:jmich...@gannett.com] Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:04 AM To: Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 Release Update 3 Hotfix 1 (6.5.3.1) We upgraded out master and two media servers to 6.5.3.1 (in order to backup a standby Exchange CCR node and Windows 2008) this week and our full backups this weekend are running incredibly slow, about 1/3 the normal speed. The client agents have not been upgraded, they are at v. 6.5.1. Do you think upgrading the agent will fix the speed issue, or am I going to need to open a support case? Thoughts? Thanks. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: 20 February, 2009 10:08 AM To: Preston, Doug Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 Release Update 3 Hotfix 1 (6.5.3.1) On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Preston, Doug <dpres...@landam.com<mailto:dpres...@landam.com>> wrote: There are a lot of your customers that would rather have a 32bit install instead of having to install all new machines twice. 3 times. 6.5 base, 6.5.3 patch kit, then 6.5.3.1 security patch. Without LiveUpdate, I can't see any way to shrink this to less than 3 separate installs. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org<mailto:ewi...@ewilts.org>
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