{"id":2254,"date":"2010-05-07T07:41:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T21:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2010-05-07T07:41:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T21:41:39","slug":"cumulative-patch-clusters-come-in-from-the-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2010\/05\/07\/cumulative-patch-clusters-come-in-from-the-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Cumulative patch clusters come in from the cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s long been discussion \u2013 particularly between support partners and EMC \u2013 about the rather cloak-and-dagger way that cumulative patch clusters have been made available for downloads. Or <em>not<\/em> made available, as the case may be. Recently though, that&#8217;s changed.<\/p>\n<p>Cumulative patch clusters, if you&#8217;re not aware, are collections of patches to individual releases that effectively form a sub release. So considering NetWorker 7.5 SP1, otherwise known as NetWorker 7.5.1, we have cumulative patch clusters that effectively form NetWorker 7.5.1.1, NetWorker 7.5.1.2, etc.<\/p>\n<p>There are typically two types of cumulative patch clusters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Just the patches \u2013 i.e., the individual binaries that have been updated;<\/li>\n<li>Entire new installers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Personally, I prefer the second option, even though it means a little more downloading \u2013 but others may prefer the individual binaries.<\/p>\n<p>On the <a title=\"NetWorker Product Support page at EMC\" href=\"https:\/\/support.emc.com\/products\/NetWorker\" target=\"_blank\">NetWorker Support page at EMC<\/a>, you&#8217;ll now find Cumulative Patch (aka Fix) Downloads available:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/cumulative.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2255\" title=\"Cumulative patch builds\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/cumulative.jpg\" alt=\"Cumulative patch builds\" width=\"1015\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/cumulative.jpg 1015w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/cumulative-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/cumulative-500x188.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1015px) 100vw, 1015px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, I wouldn&#8217;t recommend that this should be considered open slather to just go and install every new cumulative patch cluster as it comes out \u2013 instead, I&#8217;d strongly advocate using the public availability of these builds to closely review the fix notes in each release and see if any of those fixes happen to match issues you&#8217;ve been experiencing but either (a) haven&#8217;t got around to logging a case about or (b) haven&#8217;t been able to resolve.<\/p>\n<p>If they do, it would probably warrant considering talking to your support provider about installing the cumulative patch build in question.<\/p>\n<p>As always, information makes backup administration easier, and knowing that these cumulative patch clusters are available and having ready access to the fix notes will become a very useful addition to the debugging and maintenance toolkit for NetWorker administrators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s long been discussion \u2013 particularly between support partners and EMC \u2013 about the rather cloak-and-dagger way that cumulative patch&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,263,264,388],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networker","tag-bugs","tag-cumulative-patch","tag-cumulative-patch-cluster","tag-fixes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-Am","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}