The only issue we have seen here is NT4 is no longer supported with 5.2 Storage Agent. That hit us hard since we weren't informed of it by the company that performed the 4.2 -> 5.2 upgrade (with an AIX upgrade as well). We had to scramble to re-schedule large database servers so all the databases weren't backing up FULL every day. Other than that, the older B/A clients appear to work well for us (so far, we haven't had to do a restore of an NT4 node from our 5.2 server, yet).
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Bullock Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 12:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Server 5.2 with 5.1 clients? We have many old clients backing up to our 5.2 TSM servers, a few TSM V3 clients, and they still work great. IBM does not guarantee that they will work, and we would probably have issues getting support, but we find in most cases they continues to work... Until they don't :-) 5.1.5 clients should be fine, IMHO. Ben -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Hefty Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 11:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Server 5.2 with 5.1 clients? Hello all, We have a TSM server version 5.2.3.2 and have been upgrading clients to be on the 5.2 client level and found that our old WinNT 4.0 servers are not compatible with this version level. Will these older clients (version 5.1.5.0) be able to backup\restore and archive\retrieve to a 5.2 server properly? If so, is this something that is guaranteed by IBM, or merely a loophole that works? Thanks, Rob
