[Samba] Some final notes: Backup Exec & Samba shares

Shawn Wright
2003-12-01T15:50:31Z

Interesting...
Sorry if I missed the previous thread, but had you considered using the free BE
agent
for *nix? We've been using it for several years on 3 production samba boxes
and
BE8.6 running on an NT server. Speed is much slower than the Veritas agents on
NT, and a bit slower than non-agent backups from NT, bit it works. We are
currently
backing up ~50Gb from Samba using the agent.

btw - I agree with your assessment of Veritas - after 6+ years with BE, I
suspect our
next upgrade will be to another vendor. We bought 9.x last summer, and wasted 2
weeks trying to get it working, and finally gave up and went back to 8.6. All
the while,
Veritas support was hopeless. I don't think they even tested v9 on an NT
server, as 3
of our servers were clean OS installs and they wouldn't even install BE9!

When 8.6 no longer supports our hardware (the only reason we went from v6 to
v8),
then we'll look elsewhere, unless Veritas changes their MS-centric focus.
Their
requirement for IE on the server just to run BE9.x was the last straw!

On 1 Dec 2003 at 6:45, Bruce Lane <kyrrin@bluefeathertech.com> wrote:

> Good day, gang,
>
>  Chris McKeever was kind enough to write back to me over the weekend
regarding
>  the problems I'd experienced in using Backup Exec 8.x and 9.x to
connect to
>  Samba shares on a NetBSD system. Between his comments and my direct
experience,
>  I've only found ONE combination that will work, and that is: NetBSD
1.6, Samba
>  2.2.8a, and Backup Exec 8.6. If you take NetBSD up to 1.6.1, everything
stops
>  working and you can no longer browse the Samba shares.
>
>  I suspect you could change Backup Exec to 9.x, and Samba to 3.x, since I
had
>  the same symptoms in either condition, but I did not try it (ran out of
time).
>
>  With that said: I have discovered that CA's ARCServe package (formerly
made by
>  Cheyenne Software) couldn't care less if a network share is sourced by
a
>  Windows or *nix type system running Samba. It browses and backs up either
one
>  with ease.
>
>  Chris already posted the same thing he mailed to me to the list.
Essentially,
>  Veritas won't do a thing about it, and it does appear to be a design
flaw in
>  their software (considering that ARCserve doesn't have a problem with
it).
>
>  Sad, really. Backup Exec used to be a pretty good product. Sounds like
Veritas
>  has turned into the Microsoft of the backup software world, just like
Adaptec
>  turned into the Microsoft of the SCSI world, and... oh, frell, you get the
>  idea.
>
>  Later...
>
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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> Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
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