Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM wrote:
Hi Remco! What if you cannot restore a file? IBM will tell you to upgrade the client to a supported level, which you will do. Now you still cannot restore the file. Now IBM will tell you, well, the file was backed up with an unsupported client version. Bad luck...
so you backup a file today with a supported 5.3 client... May 1st you'll need to restore that file with a supported 5.4 client, and you fail, will IBM hang you out to dry? Not more or less than when you upgrade after May 1st, I'm willing to bet. Be ware, we're talking clients here, not servers!
And also, most companies don't allow (and should not allow) using unsupported software usage in a production environment. I would not be surprised if using supported software levels is a requirement to be SOx compliant.
That's up to a company and a person in charge to decide which of two evils is the lesser. Currently, I'd advise my customers not to upgrade the clients. I've had one (in my previous job) who suffered big time on Netware for this problem (incrementals running for over a week, couldn't downgrade due to other bugs in previous levels). I'd rather have good backups with an unsupported level than no backups with a supported level. See you April 3rd at the tsmgg meeting.
Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
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