Over the last 36 hours or so I’ve been doing a lot of tests of NetWorker 7.4.5, and overall I must say I’m reasonably impressed in its stability.<\/p>\n
Let’s be completely up front: this is a bug-fix only <\/strong>release. If you check the release notes, you’ll see that there are no new features<\/em> in this release at all. This from the outset usually means a fairly stable release, as there’s no “new code” (so to speak) competing with existing code and patches.<\/p>\n So far my testing has been limited to Linux and Solaris, with Windows testing to start tomorrow. (I frequently pick on Linux for heavy NetWorker testing because I’ve found in the past that if a *nix platform is going to have issues, Linux will be the first one to do so.)<\/p>\n According to the release notes, there’s 89 resolved issues in NetWorker 7.4.5; while some of them of course are somewhat trivial (e.g., one of the fixed issues is to do with NetWorker vs EBS branding in particular scripts), many of them represent significant fixes to issues in NetWorker 7.4. Previously several of these rolled into cumulative patch clusters, however, the number of fixes in 7.4.5 exceeds the number of patches cited for the cumulative patch clusters by a quite a bit, meaning there’s been quite a lot of effort go into this “service pack”.<\/p>\n My gut feel at this point is that if you’re still on the 7.4.x tree, 7.4.5 may be quite a worthwhile version to update to. As always, no site should update their version of NetWorker without a careful review of the release notes, and administrators should make themselves completely aware of (at bare minimum) the following:<\/p>\n In short: an update should always be prepared for, both in the action plan and the back-out plan, and always consider the update in light of the needs and issues of your <\/em>site.<\/p>\n I’ll post another update in a day or two once I’ve had more time to review this release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the last 36 hours or so I’ve been doing a lot of tests of NetWorker 7.4.5, and overall I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networker","tag-7-4-5"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n