Mac OS X 10.6.3 and NetWorker

Less than a month ago, Apple released service pack 3 to Snow Leopard – i.e., 10.6.3. A few days after that they released 10.6.3.1 which was apparently only needed in a few instances, but I downloaded and applied anyway due to some irregularities I’d noticed with my OS after installing the vanilla 10.6.3.

It’s recently occurred to me that NetWorker (7.6) has been a heck of a lot more reliable since going to 10.6.3 / 10.6.3.1. As always, it’s a bit of a grey zone, since it’s not officially supported (and there’s definitely some patching required) – hence the wait for 7.6 SP1, but overall I’m now noticing that the client process remains contactable by the server across multiple sleep/wake and/or location transitions, something that it wouldn’t do before. There’s still some other behavioural oddities, but overall, I realised that I’ve not reinstalled the client on my laptop now for over 2 weeks, which is a bit of a record since I installed Snow Leopard. If you’re in a situation where you absolutely have to be running 10.6 and backing up with NetWorker, and knowing it’s not currently supported, I’d suggest you make sure you’re on 10.6.3.1.

2 thoughts on “Mac OS X 10.6.3 and NetWorker”

  1. What’s the current status of OS X support in (for example) 7.6 SP3?
    Fully functional, no patching required?

    1. I currently have 7.6.3.0 (7.6 SP3 plain) on my MacBook Pro and my Mac Pro and it’s not exhibiting any issues, but I haven’t checked for any Mac specific updates in the cumulative releases for 7.6.3.

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