Greetings,
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried looking for a NetBackup 5.0 Linux
client and I couldn't find one. So thats that.
I also tried installing a NetBackup 7.0 server and two 7.0 clients. One on
Solaris 10 and one on RHEL 5.
I still get tons of fail on Linux with this setup. I actually tried using
strings to see of I could find and references to vos commands buried
within the bpbkar executables on either platform. On solaris there were
12 lines of vos commands I could identify. Stuff like this:
Not updated since full, skipped running vos dump for %s
On the Linux client there were only 2 lines. So it seems the Linux
executable was never compiled with many of the AFS features. No wonder it
doesn't work!
I also tried calling Symantec technical support to report this bug and
they said I would be getting a call back about this issue. But I am
thinking this is just not going to ever work. They sent me to this pdf
file that says openAFS support is only for Solaris 8 SPARC. Lovely...
EOLed os.
I have just found out that it seems that our university is looking into
teradactyl
(http://www.teradactyl.com/backup-solutions/backup-platforms/openafs-backup.html)
since it seems they actually support AFS. Yay. Hopefully this other
solution will work out better and we won't have to pay so much for the
backup software.
Thanks for the replys about this. At least I have an answer now. And the
answer seems to be switch companies or roll your own solution. :)
Gary Gatling | ITECS Systems
ITECS, BOX 7901 | Operations and Systems Analyst
NCSU, Raleigh, NC | Email: gsgat...@eos.ncsu.edu
27695-7901| Phone: (919) 513-4572 (5C Page Hall)
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Ron Jack (Systems Network) wrote:
I have zero experience with AFS, so your post piqued my curiosity. Plus,
I'm just down the street, so I thought I'd try to assist a neighbor.
Total stab in the dark - try the 5.0 client.
It certainly appears AFS support is dodgy and that Veritas doesn't want
to hear about it. So, yes, most folks seem to split the difference by
scripting out the vos dump and backing that up. From the openAFS
mailing list archive:
http://www.mail-archive.com/openafs-i...@openafs.org/msg20079.html
That link at the top of the page to the scripts still works. Wheel
invented, as it were.
Ron
Gary Gatling wrote:
Greeetings,
At my work we use several AFS file servers for storage. We have been using
netbackup to backup and restore these servers for many years. They are
all running on Solaris 10 on SPARC hardware.
We would love it if it would be possible to switch to using Red Hat
Enterprise Linux for these AFS servers. The SPARC stuff is just too
expensive. And their is the uncertanty about Oracle's takover. I do
actually use RHEL 5 to run some AFS servers that don't need to be backup
up...
When I last tried setting up a server and doing a backup/ restore with a
test AFS file server running under RHEL 5, it did not work. Restores from
a backup done on a SPARC system worked on Linux. But a backup would not
work. Instead of backing up the /vicepa patition volumes it tried to
backup all the actual files on the /vicepa partition. On our Solaris and
Linux AFS fileservers we are using namei type AFS fileservers.
The files have names like:
/vicepa/AFSIDat/R1/R5y0U/+/+/06
these files contain the actual data that is used by the AFS volumes. It
shouldn't be backing those up. Instead it should be doing a vos dump
command to copy the .backup volume.
The backup selection in the client is:
/vicep[a-z]
I was wondering how I could go about reporting this bug? Any chance it
could ever be fixed? I have been told netbackup does and doesn't
support AFS fileservers any longer... I'd hate to have to cobble together
our own backup solution when netbackup has been working so well all these
years.
The versions of netbackup client I tried were:
netbackup 5.1, 7M.
netbackup 6.0, 4M.
netbackup 6.5.3.1.
The version of afs we are using on our servers is 1.4.11.
I was told by a Linux sysadmin I know that this used to work with RHEL 3.
But he didn't provide any further details such as the version of
netbackup client it used to work with.
Another group has taken over our backups and soon I will not have access
to a tape robot any more or a netbackup server. After that I will only
have access to the clients. As for the group taking over our backups
their blanket answers are: AFS + netbackup will only be supported and
work on solaris 8 which is rubbish since I have many Solaris 10 systems
and it works just fine. Solaris 8 was end of lifed so I know using it
forever is not a realistic answer either. Our Sun hardware is out of
warranty and getting older every day.
I know a lot of other services have moved away from UNIX to Linux over the
years so it should be possible for this last one of our dependencies to
get fixed if symantec still supports afs. Thats the big if I
