Is there an improved BackupExec Unix agent available that works with Samba? If not, can someone tell me how to work around the lack of the archive bit that Linux has? In particular, RedHat Linux 7.2 is the system I'm looking for help on.
I have recently set up a Samba 3 server and have still not found a way to backup data using BackupExec on a Windows server to connect to a Samba share. (We are using an older version of BackupExec; perhaps newer versions have solved the problem.)
The Unix Agent for BackupExec (available from Veritas' FTP server) is really independant of Samba. By installing the BackupExec Agent for Unix (binary only, sadly) on our Linux system (running Debian Stable with a 2.6.6 kernel) the server then appeared in the list of BackupExec Agents in the program on the NT server. Testing showed that Unix permissions were saved and restored correctly using the BackupExec Agent - something that I did not think would happen had the files been restored using Samba.
The documentation on Vertias' website suggests that it is still not possible to do differential backups from a Unix system (presumably because of the lack of an archive bit.
To get around this limitation, in the longer term I am looking at using rsync to backup to either a co-located server or removable hard-drives.
HTH,
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