[NTLUG:Discuss] network backup solutions

[Ed Coates]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 MontyS at videopost.com wrote:

> Clients:
> 
> All Windows NT4/XP Pro.
> 
> I am wanting to deploy a backup solution similar to Veritas BackupExec to
> back up the servers (no clients are backed up).  As I understand it, built
> in linux solutions (tar, cpio etc.) won't work with the Oracle database, and
> obviously won't work with the NT stuff.  I am hoping to have a Linux box
> host the backup software solution.  Veritas said their only solution was the
> NetBackup product, which is quite pricey.  
> 
> We currently have an old version of BackupExec running on our PDC for our
> current setup.  It won't connect ot the Oracle database.  We can't get the
> "plug-in" for Oracle with our current version, and they say the current
> version of BackupExec won't connect to an Oracle database running on Linux,
> which seems strange to me.  I would have thought it would connect via the
> odbc, but I don't have sufficient knowledge on this to call them on it.
> 
> Any insight and/or ideas on how to approach backing up this network would be
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Monty

Monty,

You might want to look into Arkeia (http://www.arkeia.com).  They have a 
backup solution that works pretty well.  I use it at home to backup a 
couple of linux boxes, and a windows box to a DLT4000 tape drive.  It's 
easy to setup through the GUI, and it has plugins for Oracle, MySQL, DB2, 
Exchange, and Lotus.  Not sure what the cost is for licensing, but it's 
worth looking into.

 
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