Hi Martin, It is true the native Spectrum Protect Solaris SPARC B/A client went EOS on December 31, 2021.
In talking with other clients, they have chosen a few different options: 1.) Purchase an extended support contract from IBM until December 31, 2022 (this is Usage and Known Defect only) 2.) Mount the Solaris SPARC filesystem from a supported platform and back the data up that way 3.) Move to Solaris x86 4.) Continue to use the SPARC Solaris B/A client "unsupported" Del ---------------------------------------------------- "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 02/16/2022 06:08:29 AM: > From: "Martin.Janosik" <martin.jano...@kyndryl.com> > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Date: 02/16/2022 06:10 AM > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Sun SPARC support for non-API clients > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > Hello all, > > do I understand correctly that 31/Dec/2021 was last day of support > for 7.1 versions (newest is 7.1.8.11) and that means there is no > more any supported way to backing up filesystem data from Sun SPARC servers? > Are we forced to switch to different backup product? > Or does IBM offer Extended Support for Backup/Archive client 7.1. on > SPARC platform? > > Thank you for any tips > > Martin Janosik > KSAT@ Kyndryl
