I can confirm it. At SHARE in Washington DC August last year I talked with the Veritas people and they said a client would be out in October of the same year. Several months ago there was a note that appeared on this list (which I no longer have a copy of, but should be in the Archives) that said Veritas didn't think there was enough of a market for its product on Mainframe Linux at this time and would revisit the decision in 2006 or 2007.
Needless to say, this caused us a lot of grief. We wanted a common backup system across all our Unix-type operatng systems for commonality of processes and training. We are currently using Tivoli TSM for backups. The VM server for TSM is stuck on a backlevel release and probably will never be upgraded. The Linux/390 TSM server is up-to-date but does not talk to ESCON-attached tape drives. We are using the TSM server at the current level on z/OS and using the Linux/390 client to back up to it. It puts out a lot of data over the network (DON'T do compression! CPU cycles are more expensive than network bandwidth.) but it's easy enough to use and even has a web interface. The licensing for this setup is very confusing, both to us and to our local Tivoli rep. We mostly did it this way because we already had the server on z/OS and adding the Linux clients was very inexpensive. For a VM and Linux -only solution, we've heard really good things about CA's Brightstor product, although the cost is more expensive (for us) than TSM. However, some people don't like to deal with CA. Amanda and Upstream are two other possibilities. Amanda means you have to "grow-your-own" tape interface and catalog. I know nothing about Upstream. So one elephant says to another, "You'll never believe what happened last night. I was trying on Groucho Marx's pajamas--and he shot me!" Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company > ---------- > From: SOLLENBERGER, JUSTIN > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 12:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Veritas NetBackup > > We are looking to deploy our first Linux guest and are looking for a file-level > backup solution. We would like to go with the Veritas NetBackup Client on our SuSE > SLES 8, but according to the information we found on their website they don't have a > supported client at this time (we are trying to confirm this with their sales > department and get a date when they will). > > Can anyone confirm or deny this? What other options are people using, and how > pleased are you with the products/support? > > Thanks in advance for the help, > > > Justin Sollenberger > > Operating Systems > DISA DECC Mechanicsburg > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
