Craig,
I'm looking to use Veritas BackupEXEC 10 on several of my servers, and would like to know if anyone knows how to get a backup exec agent to work properly with gentoo. It seems a simple enough question, but I've found nothing useful through the documentation, and their support folks don't even know what Gentoo is...
I don't have experience with backup exec, but what package does it come
in? You could probably just install dpkg or rpm on gentoo and issue a
command to ignore dependencies when installing.
If the don't know what gentoo is (obviously they don't read eWeek or
other tech publications) tell them that you're using debian or redhat.
Things might be a little different, but there are plenty of people here
that could help you work through them.
But I do want to ask what the purpose of using backupExec instead of an
OpenSource solution? I know we have it at the school where I work for
Netware, but I've always thought it was pretty wasteful to pay ($500 per
seat, correct??) when you can write a cronjob that does the same thing.
Put an ncurses frontend on it and it would be even moreso.
For example, take a look at this script I use:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Backup_with_cron_and_tar_%28simple%29
It's setup to work with a mountable (attachable or network) drive, but
with a little modification it could work well for a tape drive too.
There are plenty of other methods as well.
--
8^)
Laterz-
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