Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 08:44:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> To: <mbettinger@championelevators.com> Cc: FreeBDS-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Backup Exec Agent? Message-ID: <20020712083948.U13571-100000@mail.radzinschi.com> In-Reply-To: <200207091523.29289.matt@championelevators.com>
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Just posting this for posterity, for the next guy searching the google usenet archives. Matthew's instructions worked perfectly the first time and I was able to do a backup and restore without any trouble. Thank you, Marco Radzinschi marco@radzinschi.com On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Matthew Bettinger wrote: > On Monday 08 July 2002 08:46 pm, Marco Radzinschi wrote: > > Hello: > > > > Is anyone successfully running the Backup Exec agent for unix on > > FreeBSD? > > > > I have to build a file server for work tomorrow and I have been given the > > go-ahead to use FreeBSD, so long as I can get the backup exec agent to > > run. > > > > The backup server runs Veritas backup-exec 8.5 on Netware. > > I am running the backupexec client on freebsd machines here at work. The > veritas server is running on an old novell machine. > > you need to do the following: > > edit /etc/rc.conf and insert the line > linux_enable="YES" > > tar xvf the backupexec unix agent file > > create the directory /usr/local/bkupexec > > we are going to use agent.linux. > > copy agent.cfg agent.cfg.bak agent.linux from the newly untarred > bkupexec directory (or whatever it untars too I forgot) .. copy these files > to the /usr/local/bkupexec directory you created. > > Edit /usr/local/bkupexec/agent.cfg > > here is a sample of a working agent.cfg > > name tester > password blahblah > export /general as GENERAL include_remote > export /depot as DEPOT include_remote > export /Drawings as DRAWINGS include_remote > export /bob_home as BOB_HOME include_remote > export /brad_home as BRAD_HOME include_remote > export /michel_home as MICHEL_HOME include_remote > exclude_dir /proc > tell 201.201.2.9 > tell 201.201.2.14 > tell_interval 30 > follow_symdirs > exclude_dir /proc > > The first line is the name of the machine. > the exported directories are directories on the tester machine which will show > up in the veritas server under Unix Agents. Don't forget to put > include_remote to include the subdirectories. > > tell 201.201.2.9 and tell 201.201.2.14 is letting the veritas servers be > aware of us. > > Edit /etc/services and add the following > > grfs 6101/tcp #backup exec > > Edit /etc/rc.local > > #!/bin/sh > /usr/local/bkupexec/agent.linux -c /usr/local/bkupexec/agent.cfg > /dev/null > > > You'll have to enter root/blahblah from the veritas server. > > Good Luck! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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