I was rather pleased this morning to have a friendly FedEx courier drop off Mac OS X 10.6 – Snow Leopard.
Of course, my first thought was “will this work with NetWorker?”
I’m pleased to report – yes, yes it does. All of the following worked for me using NetWorker 7.5.1:
- Recoveries from prior to the upgrade
- Backups following the upgrade
- Recoveries from new backups only
- Recoveries that mixed old backups and new backups
(That’s just standard filesystem recoveries – I don’t use NetWorker for complete disaster recovery of Mac OS X as I feel that Time Machine is a much more appropriate system for those styles of recoveries.)
So, now we just need to wait for the software compatibility guide to be updated…
Note: The installer is very different under Snow Leopard, and no longer supports the old “Archive and Install” option; thus, when you finish the installation, there’s no need to actually re-install NetWorker; it remains there, and working, from the previous installation.
[Edit, 2009-09-04]
I can report one bit of odd experience with NetWorker under Snow Leopard. I was presenting a training course earlier in the week and wanted to change which hosts could backup the NetWorker client on my laptop. After editing the /nsr/res/servers file I found that the NetWorker client processes wouldn’t properly restart on the laptop. In the end, I did a new install of NetWorker onto the laptop, which fixed the problem. FYI, in case you notice similar things, reinstalling seems to fix the problem.
