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Re: [Networker] Archive retrievals on different host OSes

2003-08-11 05:26:39
Subject: Re: [Networker] Archive retrievals on different host OSes
From: Davina Treiber <treiber AT HOTPOP DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 05:26:54 -0400
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:36:49 +0100, Duncan Mortimer <duncan AT FMRIB.OX.AC DOT 
UK>
wrote:

>We have a mixed OS environment with a SuSE Linux hosted Networker 7.0
>server which also provides our filestore. Our main processing server
>runs Tru64 with the Networker 5.5 client software.
>Archiving/retrieval to/from the 7.0 server from the Tru64 client
>functions as expected, however, retrieval of the archived data locally
>on the Linux server results in the production of the following warning:
>
>Warning: The Digital OSF/1 meta data for `./test/archive' cannot be
>recovered
>
>All data recovered is intact and identical to the original.
>
>Is this meta data significant (the files are coming from the Linux
>server via NFS) or should these warnings be ignored?

Cross-platform recovery/retrieval is not supported by NetWorker, even
between different Unix flavours. There are some case when it will work, but
even then it's not supported. If you check with Legato Support they will
confirm this.

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