Good Afternoon, It would be nice if Symantec could design the client to master interface to be more generic, without hurting performance. Put the smarts for handling client differences in the client and not on the master.
Then they should be able to handle not only newer client support needs but also older clients. There is a need many times to support older client backups as the users of the client can not move off of the older client o/s levels. For example one might have an older application that is not going to be rewritten for a new level of the o/s. Or the client might be part of a much large piece of hardware which will not be upgraded. For example a million dollar mass spec lab device. Or one might need to do a restore 5 or 7 years down the road. With virtualization one could restore the old backup, but netbackup would not support the old o/s and/or database, and/or ….. To handle this they might have different levels of support. For example they could have support in the latest client (level n) for os levels c and d And support for os level b in the n-3 level netbackup client. The level n-3 client would not support os level c and d. Any new features in the level n client would not be ported to the n-3 level of the netbackup client. As the os level b code would not be picking up changes netbackup should not have to change.
_______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
