Will BE 8.6 or 9.0 run on Windows XP Pro?

[EvilPeppard]

I am building a new backup server. Can I run BE 8.6 or 9.0 on a Windows XP Pro box, or do I need to buy Windows 2000 ?Server?

Thanks.

 

[EvilPeppard]

**bump**
Anyone? I tried to use Veritas' Live Chat and that was worthless. I waited for 30 minutes waiting for a rep to come on.

Thanks.

 

[anegrete]

tes you can but you need to disable a couple of things first.I'l look for the white paper on this.

 

[EvilPeppard]

Great. Let me know as soon as you can. Thanks.

 

[netadminTO]

I actually just installed BE 8.6 on a Windows XP Pro machine using a Quantum DLT 8000 drive and have had complete success backup up every night. This is just my experience........not a suggestion!

 

[EvilPeppard]

Thanks! I wonder how Veritas 9.0 will work??

 

[RSA]

I have been evaluating BE 9.0 on a Windows 2000 pro machine, so Win XP Pro should not be a problem you can run in Win 2K compatability mode anyway if issues do occur, but as they share a common kernel base, there should be no problems.

BE 9.0 has support for Windows server 2003 anyway, so XP should not be an issue.

 

[nryan1980]

Just from my experience, 9.0 still seems to be very buggy... but I could be wrong. I support tape drives all day long. I highly suggest disabling RSM (Removable Storage Manager - service listed as Removable Storage) if you're going to use a 3rd party backup software. I would stay with 8.6 for now and wait for 9.0 to become more stable.

Just about a month ago I was talking to a guy who had 8.5 running on 5 servers. Upgraded 2 of them to 9 and the tape drives stopped working (were working fine w/8.5). After some troubleshooting we determined the drives to be fully functional and that it was most definately a software issue. The customer decided to re-install 8.5 on the servers that were upgraded and stick with it on the other 3.