Re: [Veritas-bu] using Linux client to backup esx (VMware)
Actually, more than just port 13782 is necessary, assuming this is ESX 3. They have a checkbox for NetBackup in their Security configuration (a lousy GUI front end for their wrapper for IP Chains that does less than IP Chains would have let you do... sigh), but the ports they list have nothing to do with anything useful. (They're in the general range that NetBackup uses but don't do anything related to the services needed on a NetBackup client.) In order to backup ESX 3 clients, I do this on the client side: esxcfg-firewall -o 2301,tcp,in,hpim esxcfg-firewall -o 13782,tcp,in,bpcd esxcfg-firewall -o 13724,tcp,out,vnetd esxcfg-firewall -o 13720,tcp,out,bprd and then on the NetBackup master require vnetd for the client (ie, enable no callback: bpclient -client hostname -add -no_callback 1). -- gabriel rosenkoetter Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup Recovery [EMAIL PROTECTED], 215 231 1556 _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 1:44 PM To: mark wragge Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] using Linux client to backup esx (VMware) Make sure you have port 13782 open on the esx server. Jared M. Seaton Recovery Administrator Mylan Inc. 304-554-5926 304-685-1389 (Cell) mark wragge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/12/2007 12:49 PM To veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] using linux client to backup esx (vmware) I am trying to use the linux client v6.0mp4 to backup an esx server v3.02. I have installed the client software choosing redhat 2.4 and the installation is complete. I cannot successfully backup the esx server as there is a cannot connect to client error message. I cannot use bp from the client to start a backup. I have checked IP resoultion and checked all hosts files. Is it necessary to restart an esx server after installation of the netbackup client software? How do I re-start the netbackup services on a linux client (if this is even possible as i dont think that services run until the backup is inititated!!).?? Are there any additional steps to be followed when attempting to backup an esx server for the first time using netbakcup? Thanks, Mark Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu == CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged, proprietary and/or confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution, duplication or other use of this message and/or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message and its attachments. Thank you. == ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] using Linux client to backup esx (VMware)
thanks for all the replies to this question. I will update the list when i have the client working. Rosenkoetter, Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, more than just port 13782 is necessary, assuming this is ESX 3. They have a checkbox for NetBackup in their Security configuration (a lousy GUI front end for their wrapper for IP Chains that does less than IP Chains would have let you do... sigh), but the ports they list have nothing to do with anything useful. (They're in the general range that NetBackup uses but don't do anything related to the services needed on a NetBackup client.) In order to backup ESX 3 clients, I do this on the client side: esxcfg-firewall -o 2301,tcp,in,hpim esxcfg-firewall -o 13782,tcp,in,bpcd esxcfg-firewall -o 13724,tcp,out,vnetd esxcfg-firewall -o 13720,tcp,out,bprd and then on the NetBackup master require vnetd for the client (ie, enable no callback: bpclient client hostname -add no_callback 1). -- gabriel rosenkoetter Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup Recovery [EMAIL PROTECTED], 215 231 1556 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 1:44 PM To: mark wragge Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] using Linux client to backup esx (VMware) Make sure you have port 13782 open on the esx server. Jared M. Seaton Recovery Administrator Mylan Inc. 304-554-5926 304-685-1389 (Cell) mark wragge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/12/2007 12:49 PM To veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] using linux client to backup esx (vmware) I am trying to use the linux client v6.0mp4 to backup an esx server v3.02. I have installed the client software choosing redhat 2.4 and the installation is complete. I cannot successfully backup the esx server as there is a cannot connect to client error message. I cannot use bp from the client to start a backup. I have checked IP resoultion and checked all hosts files. Is it necessary to restart an esx server after installation of the netbackup client software? How do I re-start the netbackup services on a linux client (if this is even possible as i dont think that services run until the backup is inititated!!).?? Are there any additional steps to be followed when attempting to backup an esx server for the first time using netbakcup? Thanks, MarkSend instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu == CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged, proprietary and/or confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution, duplication or other use of this message and/or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message and its attachments. Thank you. == Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] using linux client to backup esx (vmware)
Check that inetd or xinetd is running. It may not be installed on esx servers. If it isn't installed you will have to run the services standalone which will keep them running all the time. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 1104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTICE: This electronic mail transmission may constitute a communication that is legally privileged. It is not intended for transmission to, or receipt by, any unauthorized persons. If you have received this electronic mail transmission in error, please delete it from your system without copying it, and notify the sender by reply e-mail, so that our address record can be corrected. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mark wragge Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 9:42 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] using linux client to backup esx (vmware) I am trying to use the linux client v6.0mp4 to backup an esx server v3.02. I have installed the client software choosing redhat 2.4 and the installation is complete. I cannot successfully backup the esx server as there is a cannot connect to client error message. I cannot use bp from the client to start a backup. I have checked IP resoultion and checked all hosts files. Is it necessary to restart an esx server after installation of the netbackup client software? How do I re-start the netbackup services on a linux client (if this is even possible as i dont think that services run until the backup is inititated!!).?? Are there any additional steps to be followed when attempting to backup an esx server for the first time using netbakcup? Thanks, Mark Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] using Linux client to backup esx (VMware)
Make sure you have port 13782 open on the esx server. Jared M. Seaton Recovery Administrator Mylan Inc. 304-554-5926 304-685-1389 (Cell) mark wragge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/12/2007 12:49 PM To veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] using linux client to backup esx (vmware) I am trying to use the linux client v6.0mp4 to backup an esx server v3.02. I have installed the client software choosing redhat 2.4 and the installation is complete. I cannot successfully backup the esx server as there is a cannot connect to client error message. I cannot use bp from the client to start a backup. I have checked IP resoultion and checked all hosts files. Is it necessary to restart an esx server after installation of the netbackup client software? How do I re-start the netbackup services on a linux client (if this is even possible as i dont think that services run until the backup is inititated!!).?? Are there any additional steps to be followed when attempting to backup an esx server for the first time using netbakcup? Thanks, Mark Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu == CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged, proprietary and/or confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution, duplication or other use of this message and/or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message and its attachments. Thank you. == ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] using linux client to backup esx (vmware)
Or install the inetd or xinetd package if it is available for ESX then install the NBU stuff. On our RHEL/Fedora system we have to install xinetd because it isn't loaded by default. Actually now that I think of it when I installed on Fedora without having an xinetd or inetd the installer was brain dead and assumed there was inetd and created an inetd.conf which wasn't used by anything. I'm sure as Doug says you can have the daemons run all the time but that seems a pointless waste of resources. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Preston, Douglas L Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 1:30 PM To: mark wragge; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] using linux client to backup esx (vmware) Check that inetd or xinetd is running. It may not be installed on esx servers. If it isn't installed you will have to run the services standalone which will keep them running all the time. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 1104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTICE: This electronic mail transmission may constitute a communication that is legally privileged. It is not intended for transmission to, or receipt by, any unauthorized persons. If you have received this electronic mail transmission in error, please delete it from your system without copying it, and notify the sender by reply e-mail, so that our address record can be corrected. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mark wragge Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 9:42 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] using linux client to backup esx (vmware) I am trying to use the linux client v6.0mp4 to backup an esx server v3.02. I have installed the client software choosing redhat 2.4 and the installation is complete. I cannot successfully backup the esx server as there is a cannot connect to client error message. I cannot use bp from the client to start a backup. I have checked IP resoultion and checked all hosts files. Is it necessary to restart an esx server after installation of the netbackup client software? How do I re-start the netbackup services on a linux client (if this is even possible as i dont think that services run until the backup is inititated!!).?? Are there any additional steps to be followed when attempting to backup an esx server for the first time using netbakcup? Thanks, Mark Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Thank you. -- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
