Comments for The NetWorker Blog

Comment on NetWorker 7.5 SP3 Released by Preston de Guise

Preston de Guise — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:33:02 +0000

I’ve been emphatically told that 7.6 SP1 is Q3 2010.

Comment on NetWorker 7.5 SP3 Released by Alex

Alex — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:23:44 +0000

Regarding 7.6 SP1, will that be released sooner or later? ;) About ready to do new install, prefer the new NMC, but need full 2008R2 support. alex567@hotmail.com

Comment on Downgrading NetWorker on Mac OS X by larzon

larzon — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:17:56 +0000

Just what I needed. Thank you!

Comment on Why I work in backups by Johannes

Johannes — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:29:24 +0000

Hi Preston.

those are great points to bring meaning to this job. Reading your blog helps one take his job as a backup admin seriously – which is good, because it’s a serious job.

I remind myself of points like these every now and then. Also I find backup / recovery very interesting technology vise, because it has to do with almost everything in IT.

best regards,
Johannes

Comment on What’s happening with Sun OEM NetWorker? by Jarrod

Jarrod — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:19:22 +0000

I’d heard the same thing from Sun / Oracle re the EOL of EBS.

Comment on What’s happening with Sun OEM NetWorker? by Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:52:59 +0000

I was told by a Sun service tech back in May that they were EOLing EBS, with a last sale date of June 14, 2010, and transitioning customers to EMC. The local reseller that we buy support from confirmed this when I asked in June. I still haven’t been able to find any public announcement, though.

Comment on NetWorker 7.5 SP3 Released by Rajesh

Rajesh — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:30:30 +0000

Just an assurance from the engineering land – The LGTsc vs NW prefix should not scare folks, its just that internally we switched the bug tracking system from DDTS to ClearQuest and alongwith, we chose to change the bug ID prefix too.

Comment on What’s happening with Sun OEM NetWorker? by Alex

Alex — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:53:20 +0000

OK, just checked to make sure:
7.4 SP5, 7.5SP1, and 7.6 are the only downloads available on the Sun site.
Considering EMCNW 7.5 is on SP3, I’m not suspecting any updates will be released very soon then, if at all.

Comment on What’s happening with Sun OEM NetWorker? by Preston de Guise

Preston de Guise — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:14:13 +0000

Hi Alex,

I think that in itself is a somewhat definitive answer; if Oracle is unwilling to provide new service packs for EBS, the writing seems to be on the wall for the OEM version.

Cheers,

Preston.

Comment on What’s happening with Sun OEM NetWorker? by Alex

Alex — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:54:34 +0000

I’m sorry I can’t help you with a definitive answer, but one thing Im having problems with is the Service Packs for EBS; apparently, they are not published for EBS anymore.. I needed EBS 7.5 SP2 for a customer, doesn’t exist. Maybe they’ve encountered a hefty performance bug in grep or sed, but personally I believe Oracle doesn’t want to put any effort in it.