Exactly......
In our case, we needed to do it as we have a few 2.6 machines that were
at end of life....due to be replaced withing a few months, and wasn't
worth upgrading the OS at that time.

In any case, we test frequently, and in worse case, we can restore to an
alterante Solaris 8 client.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
> David Rock
> Sent: June 15, 2005 1:10 PM
> To: Veritas List
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] [WIN-NBU] how to get client version
> 
> 
> * Paul Keating <pkeating AT bank-banque-canada DOT ca> [2005-06-15 11:11]:
> > When we did it during our NBU implementation, we were told that it
> > "should" work but was at our own risk....
> > 
> > All restores we've done have given the message 
> "unrecognized -J string"
> > but, thankfully, have completed successfully.
> 
> Just another example of support being only as good as the 
> person on the
> phone. We were told exactly the opposite ;-)
> 
> I guess the lesson here is to try and keep everything at the 
> same major
> release whenever possible.
> 
> -- 
> David Rock
> david AT graniteweb DOT com
>