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NetBackup 6.5.3 First Availability Program Update

Updated: 21 May 2009 | 3 comments
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NetBackup 6.5.3 also introduces the First Availability(FA) program which allows a limited number of our customers early access to therelease and its features. Tim B. made earlier posts about this and invited customers to participate. As a result we havehad over 200 customers sign up for the program! The 6.5.3 FA program has nowbeen running successfully for over a couple of weeks. More than 45 customers have already been running the release successfully in production.An equal number of customers have installed it in a pre-production environment.Rest of the customers have plans to upgrade to the release as soon as they geta chance.

 

If you are a NetBackup 6.5.3 FA customer, what have your experiences beenso far?

 

If you didn't get a chance to participate this time in the FA program, would you beinterested in participating in such a program in future?

 

Ashu J

NetBackup 6.5.3 Program Manager

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2008
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I am a FA customer that has implemented the 6.5.3 release. I upgraded from 6.5.2A. It has been running in production for a week now, and we have not seen any problems with the 6.5.3

On the 6.5.2A I had problems with scheduled jobs not running, connection error to clients, device down errors. GUI refresh slow.....all gone in 6.5.3!

Not a single bck job has failed. And all restore test`s are 100% sucessfull

Hey all! Just install the 6.5.3!

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2009
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I am using 6.5.3 on Windows 2003 Server R2 64 bits with Exchange 2007 CCR.

 

The problem is: I can make a backup on disk but can't browse any individual mailbox for restoration.

 

No error is shown at all.

 

16:25:42.060 [2516.7136] <2> logparams: C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\nbfsd.exe -k -v 0 -p -j 41308 -B ocsexcp2_1234340721 -U BAK -c ocsexcp2
18:05:33.587 [5004.1672] <2> logparams: C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\nbfs umount -f -server ocsexcp2 -port 7394 -cred 44AD3152A1C341F0ABF0B31EECE87B2FE2F3EE4FCC7BCBC358FB131CEE1872F0D729BB5B83610481429D11D97AE5EA02AB05681F775197028312FB3E190A2505 Y:
18:05:33.587 [5004.1672] <2> rpc_connect: connecting to ocsexcp2
18:05:33.603 [5004.1672] <2> rpc_connect: connection established to ocsexcp2
18:05:33.603 [5004.1672] <2> nbfsd_op: making call 21 (128 Y:)
18:05:33.931 [5004.1672] <2> nbfsd_op: completed call 21 - 0   
18:05:33.931 [5004.1672] <2> nbfs main: umount -f Y:
18:05:33.931 [5004.1672] <2> _nbfs_disconnect: cancelling connection for Y:
18:05:34.025 [5004.1672] <2> nbfsd_op: making call 22 (128 )
18:05:34.025 [5004.1672] <2> nbfsd_op: completed call 22 - 0   

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2009
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KKK,

I would suggest that you open a case with our support organization if you haven't already done so. Here's the relevant site:

 

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/overview.jsp?pid=15143

 

If you already have a case# then please PM it to me.

 

Regards,

Ashu J

Technical Support

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