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RS for Clients Support extension and other news

Updated: 25 Aug 2010 | 14 comments
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All,

I wanted to update our valued RS customers with the following news.

1. We have extended the Full/Engineering Support timelines for RS for Clients:
Engineering Support
    Recovery Solution for Clients 6.2 SP3 – until 7/1/2011
    Recovery Solution for Clients 7.0 SP1 – until 1/2/2012
Technical Support
    Recovery Solution for Clients 6.2 SP3 – until 11/26/2012
    Recovery Solution for Clients 7.0 SP1 – until 7/2/2013

2. We are planning on updating RS for Clients 6.2 to add Windows 7 (32- and 64-bit) support in the first part of 2011.

3. We are adding a second free migration option for RS for Clients customers. In addition to the existing BackupExec System Recovery Desktop Edition (BESR-DT) customers may chose to migrate to NetBackup Desktop and Laptop Option (NBU DLO). Contact your Sales representative for further details.

Note: you must be current on your Basic or Essential Maintenance to receive support and be eligible for updates/upgrades/migration.

Best regards,
Rene Kolga

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Great News!

Great news Rene, thanks for sharing this and continuing to carry the torch for Recovery Solution!  There are a lot of customers out there (us included!) who are too far in to RS to easily jump out.  Obviously BESR-DT and NB-DLO still don't quite meet all the functionality we've come to love/depend on in RS...but here's hoping there are some enhancements in the pipeline!

With all the talk about Cloud at Vision this year, I was hoping to see a nice Cloud option for NB-DLO...something like this filter/collection gets Cloud-based backup, this group uses on-premises storage server "X", these use server "Y", etc.

Thanks,
Kyle
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Thanks for this info. BESR-DT

Thanks for this info. BESR-DT may not work for us since it can't resume a backup job.

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Comparison

Hi,

Does anyone have a comparison sheet betweern the 3 products;

 

  • Recovery Solution 7
  • BESR2010
  • NETBackup DLO

 

Our main reason for not moving to BESR2010 was that it doesnt support de-duplication.

Is Netbckup DLO something that is replacing BESR2010?

 

Thanks Steve

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Hi Steve, We met with the PM

Hi Steve,

We met with the PM for NBU-DLO earlier this week...I think it you look at it very closely you will quickly determine that it is NOT a replacement for RS.  I have not thoroughly investigated it, but it seems the NetBackup-DLO is Netbackup in name only.  My assumption that DLO was a "bolt-on" to the robust (as I understand it) NetBackup product was confirmed to be incorrect.  NBUDLO currently does not have any client-side de-duplication which is so powerful in RS.

If you do generate such a comparison document, please post it here on Connect!  That would be a good item for some points, and very useful!

Thanks,
Kyle
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it's great news for A6 customers!

hi Rene,

    it's great news for A6 customers.

    as ITMS 7.1 Beta released,When will customer get a backup/restor solution with DeDuplication ? the BESR 2010 is not a choise to customer.

 

regards,

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RS 6.2 SP4 - Beta

Sean,

 

Currently we don't have an RS version that can run on the 64-bit OS (like SMP 7.1). This is something being evaluated.

Meanwhile, we have made RS 6.2 SP4 Beta available here - https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/ogproduct/...

 

Regards,

Rene

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RS 6 and NS7

Can the v6 RS agent communicating with a v6 NS/Recovery server setup co exist with an SMP7 agent reporting to a separate SMP7 system?

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After a bit of experimenting...

It looks like it will work but you can't change any settings as they come via policy from the NS 6 Altiris Agent.

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6.2 SP4?

Hi Rene,

The KB article still has the old dates listed in it, though it shows that the KB article itself was updated today.  Is this just a caching problem?  Could you post the new dates here in this thread?

Thanks!
Kyle

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Full Support: Recovery

Full Support:

  • Recovery Solution for Clients 6.2 SP4 – until 12/31/2011

Partial Support:

  • Recovery Solution for Clients 6.2 SP4 – until 11/26/2012
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ITMS 7.1

Hi,

Will BESR2010 be available on the new platform to be released on March 7th along with all the other ITMS 7.1 ?

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RS 7.0 under SMP 7.1???

With the pending release of SMP 7.1...will RS be updated to still function in the 7.1/64bit native console?  I certainly hope so...or we'll be needing to re-evaluate our PC backup options quickly as we are hoping to begin out NS 7.1 migration from 6.0 late this summer...

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Kyle
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RS 7.1 confirmed

Kyle,

 

I'd like to confirm that we have received the approval for the RS 7.1 release. It'll add Win 2008 R2 64-bit support for RS Solution (SMP 7.1) and RS Server. Tentative release target (subject to change!) - Q3 2011.

This is very exciting!

 

Rene

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Q3!!!!

ITSM 7.1 was just released! I have to wait half a year to upgrade! Are you kidding me!