dahev Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 Do I need to follow the directions in the kb article "Installing the Solaris Client (Solaris 8 SPARC)" only with Solaris 8 or all Solaris (7-9) with Retrospect 7? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 Hi Solaris 7 is unsupported. The client won't even run there. Please follow the instructions in the manual for solaris 8 and 9 Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dahev Posted March 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2005 http://www.dantz.com/en/products/win_business/requirements.dtml Then why does it state on the above page on the Dantz Website for System Requirements for Solaris Clients: SPARC-based processor Solaris 7, 8, 9 I made my purchase based on this information. Am I to understand EMC Dantz has taken up misleading their customers? The manual says consult the website for supported versions of Solaris (and the various Linux distros). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baos Posted March 22, 2005 Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 I have Retrospect 7.0 running fine on both Solaris 7 and Solaris 8. No problems doing backups and restores on either machine. The only minor problem that I encountered was that passwords can be no longer than 8 characters; note that this 8 character limitation exists with all other products that require a password on our Solaris systems, so it may be simply be related to how we have our Solaris systems configured. Bancroft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Hi I'll verify this. If it is a mistake we will correct it and make this right for you. Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 dahev, I have confirmed that Retrospect only supports Solaris 8 and 9. The note about Solaris 7 compatibility was a typo. We are removing that information from our site now. Please contact the EMC Dantz customer service department if you need to return the software. Thanks, Nate @ EMC Dantz Technical Support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baos Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 Nate, Are you aware of a problem with running the Retrospect 7.0 client on Solaris 7, or is it that EMC Dantz has chosen to not test such an old version of Solaris? I have the Retrospect 7.0 client working fine on two Solaris 7 machines. Is there a lurking problem with doing this that I am not aware of? Bancroft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 Hi I'm not aware of any particular problems but until now I had not spoken to anyone who could get it to work. The daemon won't start in the cases I have seen so far. To the best of my knoledge Dantz never tested with Solaris 7. Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbernhardt Posted April 6, 2005 Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 I have had it running fine on Solaris 7,8 & 9 for almost a year now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flundy Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 Solaris has a 10yr product lifecycle-- that's Solaris' selling point. SunOS 5.7 support is terminates in 2008, I believe. Solaris7 is still viable, but I would recommend the newer versions instead. Now, whether Dantz chooses to support Solaris7 is something else entirely... http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/releases.xml http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/lifecycle.xml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltr Posted May 4, 2005 Report Share Posted May 4, 2005 Hi all, boas, i've noticed the 8 character limit too. one thing to add, it seems only to be a problem when you log into the machine. once you log in, you can change the password to a longer one. i've only tested an 10 character password, so i'm not sure if there is a limit. here's what i did: 1) install the client, put a simple 6 character password on the machine 2) log into the client 3) change the password to my 10 character password 4) backup/restore/enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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