"So, we ripped them out and bought CA's Brightstor Enterprise Backup."
I'm very interested in hearing your impressions of Brightstor on Linux/390. I've yet to hear from anyone using this product, and haven't had a chance to look at it myself yet - but it looks like it may be another "Best of Breed" product. Are you interfacing it to VM:Backup and VM:Tape on a VM host? Michael Coffin, VM Systems Programmer Internal Revenue Service - Room 6527 1111 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20224 Voice: (202) 927-4188 FAX: (202) 622-6726 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Lucius, Leland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Question on Backups > 2) I believe "Upstream S/390 Linux" (by Innovation Data > Processing) can do the above, does anyone currently use this product, > any "war stories" you'd be willing to relate? > We ran Upstream on L/390 for a while (until we found out we weren't licensed). We still use Upstream to backup our Windows servers to STK silos. We mistakenly assumed we could put an agent on our Linux guests just like we could for our Windows boxen. Found out that there is a different licensing scheme for the agents on L/390. So, we ripped them out and bought CA's Brightstor Enterprise Bac kup. The 2 "issues" I had with Upstream on L/390 was that you couldn't run it from inetd and it didn't support ACLs. The first issue was only minor and really just me being too picky, but since the agent needing to run all the time, any storage used by it would be wasted. Running from inetd would have been great, but Innovation told me there was no plans for that. The second issue was a bit more of a concern (and the one that brought up the licensing issues). We were backing up our Samba servers with Upstream and found out (the hard way) that Upstream doesn't backup the ACLs associated with the files/directories. Unfortunately, I had missed the one line in the manual that says it didn't do ACLs. Anyway, we're depending on our FDR full volume backups right now until we get EB installed across the board. So far, I'm pretty pleases with the performance and UI... Leland CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail communication and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information for the use of the designated recipients named above. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
