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Craig, |
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> I'm looking to use Veritas BackupEXEC 10 on several of my servers, and would like to know if anyone knows how to get a backup exec agent to work properly with gentoo. It seems a simple enough question, but I've found nothing useful through the documentation, and their support folks don't even know what Gentoo is... |
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I don't have experience with backup exec, but what package does it come |
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in? You could probably just install dpkg or rpm on gentoo and issue a |
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command to ignore dependencies when installing. |
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If the don't know what gentoo is (obviously they don't read eWeek or |
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other tech publications) tell them that you're using debian or redhat. |
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Things might be a little different, but there are plenty of people here |
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that could help you work through them. |
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But I do want to ask what the purpose of using backupExec instead of an |
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OpenSource solution? I know we have it at the school where I work for |
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Netware, but I've always thought it was pretty wasteful to pay ($500 per |
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seat, correct??) when you can write a cronjob that does the same thing. |
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Put an ncurses frontend on it and it would be even moreso. |
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For example, take a look at this script I use: |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Backup_with_cron_and_tar_%28simple%29 |
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It's setup to work with a mountable (attachable or network) drive, but |
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with a little modification it could work well for a tape drive too. |
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There are plenty of other methods as well. |
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8^) |
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Laterz- |
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~Alvin |
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http://CoolAJ86.Havenite.net |
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You're a geek person. You use Windows, which is complicated. [GNU/Linux] |
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is for people who jost want their darned computers to work. ~ Rob Greenlee |
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