On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Oscar Olsson wrote:

>It seems like cross platform recovery isn't possible anymore. We have
>traditionally been running automated restore tests on a linux machine,
>that recovers files from windows clients, but this stopped working a while
>ago, probably when we upgraded to 7.1.3.
>
>The error I get is:
>
>recover: Permission denied by server britt.qbranch.se: Cross platform
>recovery not supported
>
>According to the knowledge base, this is, fairly enough, not supported.
>But is there a way to get this to work anyway, even though it is not
>supported?
>
>It doesn't sound like a fun job to install cygwin on a windows box and
>port the script to that host, just to test windows clients.

I might be wrong, but I do not recall cross-platform recovers ever being
supported under NetWorker. Why not just put another PC online and load it
up with the operating systems you need and the relevant NetWorker clients
and use that for your recover testing? PCs are a commodity item these
days.

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