[itdiscuss] Other Options For Lunux Backup with Veritas v10.5?

[Jeffrey Thompson]

I think I will have a "backup partition" like a 500 GB SATA drive and dump tar files onto that and then make that a SMB share.  Thanks!

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Chris Darsey" <mailto:chris.darsey at gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:47:54 
To:"IT Discussion Forum" <mailto:discuss at itdiscuss.org>
Subject: Re: Other Options For Lunux Backup with Veritas v10.5?


Try an NFS or SMB mount local to the media server, then backup that
volume.  Yes, the data will be unencrypted, but if you are worried
about that, you could segment the backup traffic over another network.
 You will have lost of ownership and permissions, but most of the
time, those can be easily fixed if a restore is needed.  You could
generate a "find / -ls" report, and parse that via script to reset
everything.  You might want to look at the locate db to see if it's
usable instead.  The db file should contain ownership and permissions.

If that doesn't fit, could do stream a tar file backup over an ssh
session to a large "spool" volume on the media server, and back up
that tar file.

Chris

On 10/21/07, Jeffrey Thompson <mailto:jthompsonic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I've been working on getting the Linux backup to work via "RALUS" product from Veritas v10.5.  Apparently it requires rsh which sends the root password in plain-text over the network; A major security hole.
>
> Anyone else have any other way to accomplish the Linux backup directly to the Veritas Windows Server?  I would like to centrally manage all the backups both Linux and Windows from one place, but I'm not going to break my network security to get it.
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