>>But there's plenty of rather bad news here. V6.3 servers and clients cannot interoperate with V5.5 clients and servers.
I wonder if this is also true for server-to-server communication because that is the number one way to migrate from 5 to 6...for smaller configurations anyway. It's probably "just" a support issue and nothing technical, I suspect it will work just fine...but still if this hold true for server-2-server exports it's a pretty big pain. On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Roger Deschner <[email protected]> wrote: > That's wonderful. And the TSM 6.3 Mac client supports OSX 10.7 "Lion", > which is important to us. > > But there's plenty of rather bad news here. V6.3 servers and clients > cannot interoperate with V5.5 clients and servers. So Mac Lion cannot > back up to a V5.5 server. This also makes migration from V5.5 to V6.3 a > lot harder, because a V5.5 server cannot be a Library Client to a V6.3 > Library Manager. The restriction that the Library Manager must be at the > same or higher release level than all of its clients means we will have > to completely eliminate all of our V5.5 TSM server instances before we > can migrate any of our instances to V6.3. That's going to be hard. > > V6.3 has dropped support for a number of client and server platforms > that are still rather mainstream, such as AIX 5.3, Windows XP (still 50% > of our clients), Windows Server 2003, any 32-bit Linux. See it all at: > > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21243309 > > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21302789 > > Looks like we can't go beyond V6.2 for quite a while, except for a few > V6.3 clients who will be restricted to our new V6.2 server that's > currently in test mode. > > IBM: Supporting V6.3 interoperablility with V5.5 would help a LOT, at > least for some limited pain areas, such as Library Manager > configurations, and an Apple Mac client that can run on OSX 10.7 "Lion" > with a V5.5 server. > > P.S. No documentation yet. The V6.3 infocenter is a broken link. > > Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [email protected] > Academic Computing & Communications Center > > > On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Oscar Kolsteren wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >Don't know if this was already posted here, but TSM 63 > is now available >on the Passport Advantage page > > > >Best Regards, > > >Oscar > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >ATTENTION: >The information in this electronic mail message is private > and confidential, and only intended for the addressee. Should you > receive this message by mistake, you are hereby notified that any > disclosure, reproduction, distribution or use of this message is > strictly prohibited. Please inform the sender by >reply transmission and > delete the message without copying or opening it. > >Messages and > attachments are scanned for all viruses known. If this message contains > password-protected or encrypted attachments, the files have NOT been > scanned for viruses by the ING mail domain. Always scan attachments > before opening them. > >ING Direct NV is limited liability company > incorporated in The Netherlands. Registered in England & Wales, Branch > Ref BR7357, 410 Thames Valley Park Drive, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 1RH. > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >
