Re: OES Backup and VMWARE
Joseph Marton
> 1. In this forum I read a lot about Backup Exec. Has anyone experience
> with Dataprotector versus Backup Exec? Is Backup Exec THE Backup
> Software you choose if you want to backup netware files?
I tried the free version, HP Data Protector Express, and found it really
couldn't backup OES (Linux) well at all. We're using Backup Exec for
Windows to backup both physical NetWare and virtual OES. The VM is
running under ESX. It works... ok. Some nights it just randomly loses
connection to the OES machine for no good reason.
> 2. If we assume that we'll install the Backup Agents on the virtual
> sles-servers, how would you organize the backup of the SAN-files? We
> thought e.g. we could let the Agent write the files on a Storage Server
> (which is attached over LAN).
That's what we do. It does D2D using internal drives of the Windows
machine running BE. That machine is also connected to a tape drive and
after the D2D backup completes it does the D2T portion.
An alternative to Backup Exec is SEP SESAM. They've got full support for
both NetWare & OES, and in fact their tech support actually *understands*
these technologies. Much better than Symantec, where you call with an
issue about NetWare or OES and they are confused.
--
Joe Marton
Novell Knowledge Partner
Thomas Reiß
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:16:02 +0000, susehoush wrote:
>
>> 1. In this forum I read a lot about Backup Exec. Has anyone experience
>> with Dataprotector versus Backup Exec? Is Backup Exec THE Backup
>> Software you choose if you want to backup netware files?
>
> I tried the free version, HP Data Protector Express, and found it really
> couldn't backup OES (Linux) well at all. We're using Backup Exec for
> Windows to backup both physical NetWare and virtual OES. The VM is
> running under ESX. It works... ok. Some nights it just randomly loses
> connection to the OES machine for no good reason.
>
For Info.
At the moment i test HP Dataprotector 6.0 with latest Patches from
Support on a new OES2 SP2 X86_64 Cluster and it seems to run fine (now).
Only thing is at Backuptime my /var/log/messages are flooded with a lot
of Messages like this:
------------------
Jan 28 15:36:51 lc02 kernel: OID_AddEntryIfNotThere - Unable to map GUID
to DN using NCP eDir
------------------
HP Support tells me this is a Novell Issue.
I do some further testing about this...
Thomas
Alex Warmerdam
<tho...@mypoint.franken.de> wrote:
Hi,
>
> At the moment i test HP Dataprotector 6.0 with latest Patches from
> Support on a new OES2 SP2 X86_64 Cluster and it seems to run fine (now).
>
> Only thing is at Backuptime my /var/log/messages are flooded with a lot
> of Messages like this:
>
> ------------------
> Jan 28 15:36:51 lc02 kernel: OID_AddEntryIfNotThere - Unable to map GUID
> to DN using NCP eDir
> ------------------
>
> HP Support tells me this is a Novell Issue.
> I do some further testing about this...
Novell has been working together on this.
DP6.0 with the latest unofficial patches (both novell as dp) does seem
to fix everything.
6.1, i do not have confirmation if all the patches are allready
available.