Re: NW Backup using SEP

[Paul Thurn]

I'm also looking at SEP sesam as backup program.
But as you I also have some nw65 servers in our enviroment.

Hope you will get any usefull answers and post them here!

/paul

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:26:03 GMT, dschaldedfg <dscha...@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote:

>
>I just worked on a Migration from a Physical NW 6.5 SP2 file server to a
>Virtual NW 6.5 SP8 file server. The Migration itself went fairly
>smoothly, but we came across an issue in regard to the Backup Software
>that we were going to be using.
>The client originally had Backup Exec 9.1 that they were having several
>problems, further that as far as I know BE is not supported on NW any
>longer, from the ATT conference in December I met with the SEP Sesam
>software and they presented their software and we deployed that into the
>environment.
>Went through a couple of issues on the SLES 10 SP3 server had to
>install the Novell TSA's and the client but the backup went well.
>Has anyone else tried this software and have they had good success with
>it?

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Paul Thurn - Skulking along since Nw2.15
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[Anders Gustafsson]

Dschaldedfg,

> Has anyone else tried this software and have they had good success with
> it?
>

Yes. I have installed SEP Sesam for one of our clients. The software is
good and support is excellent.

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[Anders Gustafsson]

Dschaldedfg,
> > I have been able to get the SEP server installed and for the most part
> > it seems configured but when I try to select the NW file system or
> > eDirectory it basically shows up blank, when I spoke with SEP they said
> > to configure the backup for either Dual or Single, and that there had to
> > be some configurations in the SMDR.Conf file. Did you have to do
> > anything like that? DS
>
Yes, there were some quirks getting that to work. I cannot remember exactly
and do not have access to my notes. Let me check at work tomorrow.