NetBackup for Linux [ioctl... is not implemented]

[Jake Scott]

That's right - it's the Master/Media functionality I'm trying to get 
working under emulation.  I've tried under FreeBSD 4.10, and that 
doesn't get close to working.  FreeBSD 5's emulation is much better.

I don't actually want to back up the FreeBSD machine itself- so I don't 
really care which client is on there.  I have the feeling it would not 
be possible to have the Linux Masted/Media and the FreeBSD client 
co-existing on the same machine anyway, as the components share binaries 
and libraries that have to be at the same location on the file system.

I suppose one way round this would be to use VmWare for Linux on the 
FreeBSD host, and run NetBackup under this in a "real" Linux 
environment, but that seems very messy.

Regards

Jake



Chris Dillon wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Dan Nelson wrote:
>
>> In the last episode (Jun 06), Jake Scott said:
>>
>>> I'm trying to get the Linux version of Veritas NetBackup 5.0 working 
>>> on FreeBSD.  It mainly works, but after performing one backup, then 
>>> fails to perform any others.
>>
>>
>> Why not just use the native FreeBSD NetBackup client?
>
>
> He's trying to run the master server and likely also the media server 
> on FreeBSD, not just the client.  He could (and should) run the native 
> FreeBSD client even though he would be running the servers under Linux 
> emulation on the same machine.  I'd be interested in knowing how this 
> turns out, as I'm currently running the master and media servers under 
> Windows 2000 to back up various Windows and FreeBSD servers.
>