This is more of an interoperability issue than a problem within the new TSM 6.3 Mac client. Mac OSX 10.7 "Lion" is supported only with the V6.3 client. The issue is that two of our three servers are still running V5.5. Trillions of bits have been devoted on this list to issues of migrating TSM servers from V5 to V6 - it is not easy, no matter which strategy you use. (Ours was to buy a new computer to run V6.)
The time required to migrate TSM servers to V6 should not matter to our Mac user base, which is acquiring Lion-based Macs in large numbers right now. You can't buy a new Mac with anything else. When I discover them backing up to our old V5.5 servers, I am facing a prospect of immediately moving them to our new V6.2 server - and also forcing them to update their client to V6.3. This is more cats than I care to herd around at once - literally. What has been the experience so far running V6.3 clients on a V5.5 server? Is this something we need to actively prevent? Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [email protected] Academic Computing & Communications Center ======I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.=====
