Backup Server with Freebsd 5.4. Help.

perikillo perikillo at gmail.com
Sat Jul 23 21:16:52 GMT 2005


On 7/23/05, Hornet <hornetmadness at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/22/05, perikillo <perikillo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/22/05, lars <lars at gmx.at> wrote:
> > > perikillo wrote:
> > > >   Hi people.
> > > >
> > > >      I like to hear some experienced about this situation and see if
> > > > is possible:
> > > >
> > > >    We have in the company i work, one backup system running Windows NT
> > > > 4 with some Seagate Backup Exec 7.8 over one SCSI system HP SuRestore
> > > > Ultrium 230, this system has working good for some years, but next
> > > > week we are going to receive one new Dell server running win server
> > > > 2k3, this will be our PDC, and we need to get rid of Windows NT system
> > > > backup, and i want to install the backup system with Freebsd 5.3 or
> > > > 5.4 and bacula or another backup system that you now is working with
> > > > my HP device.
> > > >
> > > >    Them, i can use Freebsd 5.3 or 5.4 with my HP device with bacula or
> > > > other software to
> > > > backup files on my windows domain? The PDC is going to run win 2k3
> > > > here is going to be the files we want to backup.
> > > Did you check www.bacula.org whether your tape drive is supported by
> > > Bacula? Or how to setup Bacula on MS Windows?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >    Yes, is supported, but the OS dosent appear, this way i want to
> > knows if someone has this tape drive working with freebsd 5.3 or 5.4.
> >
> >    About setup bacula under Redmond software, i dont want pay more
> > license only to use it like backup system, this why i want to use
> > freeebsd, to use one simply hardware and backup my windows files for
> > windows 2003.
> >
> >    Some has this configuration?
> >
> 
> I have always like the bacula software. I have not used it in about a
> year though. This was on a w2k AD domain. The problem only I had using
> it, was the MS agent. It had issues backing up MS systems files. I
> just cron'd MSbackup to backup the system state to a SMB mount, and
> used the agent for everything else. Also you will have to run the
> agent as administrator or an account with-in the administrators group.
> 
> If your HP device will work the app "mt" it should work with bacula.
> Sometimes it will require a bit of hacking.
> 

   Thanks for the tip Hornet, it seens that is possible to setup this,
i will start next week this work and if i have problems i will can
back here or if everething goes perfect i will inform you guys.

   Thanks all for your comments, grettings.


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