Hey Gary, When we here at NJIT read you post we sort of rolled our eyes. Not at you, at Symantec.
First off, I cant help you. But let me tell you why. (normally I wouldnt reply when I cant help!) We tried fighting this battle when they first announced that AFS support was "going away"... Which they did, by way of a appendix buried in the manual. They are dropping support by offering only official support for ancient versions of the software. Which is useless. When we called them on this, we got nowhere. We went as high as we could, but in the end, didn't get any traction. We are a HUGE Netbackup user, and a HUGE OpenAFS user. Symantec just doesn't care. We are still limping along with using NetBackup 6.0 on Solaris/SPARC. However, there are MAJOR problems. Ever had trouble with restoring incremental backups? We essentially have to restore each image as separate jobs. We have made the decision that we need to dump NetBackup for our OpenAFS cells. We are using alternate methods, a form of scripted disk-2-disk vos full and incremental dumps, when then Netbackup picks up and puts on tape. But one cell (our largest) still remains on NetBackup/Solaris/SPARC. We havnt been able to get any other platform versions working reliably. I've tried the RHEL4+5/NetBackup 6 and gave up. -Matt (& the rest of us here at NJIT) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary Gatling Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 3:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OpenAFS] symantec netbackup on Linux Greetings, Has anyone ever gotten netbackup backup and restore to work with openafs servers running on Linux? I was able to get restores to work with a 6.0 and a 5.1 client. But not backups. In netbackup I have a file selection for my AFS policy that reads /vicep[a-z] I have been able to backup and restore volumes using netbackup 5.1 MP7, 6.0 MP4, and 6.5.4 clients running on SPARC Solaris openafs servers. (openafs version 1.4.11 `cause we just upgraded our servers) But when I try with Linux it just backs up the /vicepa directory like its using a standard policy instead of using vos commands on volumes like it should. So it backs up all the funny named files under /vicepa/* and when you go to look at the list of what it backed up it opens a dialog saying no files match the criteria. The same version of the software on Solaris with AFS backups just works ok. An example, on Solaris it finds 2 files on my fileserver and backups one of them which is a volume. (I guess the other is the .backup volume) But on Linux with the same basic setup it finds 24 files to backup and they are listed as they are backing up as stuff like: /vicepa/AFSIDat/c=/cJc1U/+/+/=++++2 (So maybe there is some bug in the Linux version of netbackup in the file selection mechanism...) I am using version 6.5.4 on my test netbackup server. People here want us to get off of SPARC Solaris but since we are stuck with netbackup as a backup solution it looks like we might be stuck on that platform... Anyone else run into this or find a workaround? In the Netbackup Systems Administrators guide, volume 2 for 6.0 it says that AFS backups are only supported on Solaris 7, HP-UX 11.0 or IBM AIX 4.3.3. platforms. It does seem to work ok with Solaris 10 even though its not officially supported by symantec any longer. We are running a mix of SPARC Solaris 10 and RHEL 5 in our environment. So it would be awesome if there was some way to get AFS backups to work on RHEL 5. We already have a several Linux AFS file servers but they only hold read only volumes so there is no need to back those up. I was actually suprised that netbackup 6.5.4 on Solaris worked with openafs. Our instructor at the netbackup course told us only old versions of the software would likely work. Thanks, Gary Gatling | ITECS Systems ITECS, BOX 7901 | Operations and Systems Analyst NCSU, Raleigh, NC | Email: gsgatlin at eos.ncsu.edu 27695-7901 | (5C Page Hall) _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
