On 5/18/05, Tim Holmes <tholmes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 11:18:35AM -0400, Tim Holmes wrote: > > > > > Good Morning Everyone: > > > > > > > > > > I have just found out that it is not possible to back up our > fedora > > > > > servers using our current backup solution (veritas 10 for > windows) - > > > > > the remote agent will not work on Fedora. So I am at the point > of > > [snip] > > > > Have you contacted Veritas & if so, was their response useful? > > > > Tim, this is the most important thing anyone has said yet. Veritas > > supports Linux backup (we back up Debian and RH9 servers with Veritas, > > and the agent is distro-agnostic). They will help you get this > > installed if you call them. Since you note that you're new to Linux, > > this is probably your best source of help. > > [Tim Holmes wrote] > Hi Matt: > > Unfortunatly, I got the information from veritas: I was on their direct > assistance website working live with a tech, and when I asked him about > a problem that I was having with the linux agent, I got a rather curt > response that the agent only supports RHEL ES 3 and AS 3 and 4, and then > a request to please exit direct assistance. Sorry to hear this. It's the difference between "support" meaning "works on this platform" and "we'll help you with that," I guess. You could lie and pretend you're on RH :-). They might not know the difference. Someone earlier recommended using tar or some other archiving mechanism to backup to a samba share that is then backed up by Veritas. That works, although it makes restores a little harder. It may be the path of least resistance for you, however, and it can be very safe. We do it in some cases because it's easier to scp the tar file than to get Veritas to work through a firewall.
