Hi Mats
We have 3 Netware servers (Netware6.5) which we have been backing up for many
years now.
We're currently running Networker 7.6.1 and using the Netware client v7.2.1
(the last one I think!).
All our backups go directly to Data Domain (not using DDBOOST though - can't
afford it - and sadly, once the maintenance of our DD expires in about 18
months time, we'll be dropping it as it's just out of our league now - which is
a shame as I love it).
This has worked fine for us both when the Netware servers were physical and now
they're virtualised (done about 3 years ago).
Virtualisation certainly gave our servers a longer life-time in that moving to
new hardware was not an issue we had to worry about. You can argue that's a bad
thing I guess - and we are unfortunately in the process of moving to a
predominantly Windows environment, ditching e-Directory and moving to AD. We
also backup the NDS via one of these Netware clients. We've had very few
problems and in fact over the last 12 months at least, I can't recall a single
issue with Networker and these Netware servers. It's been rock solid.
We also use a product called Veeam to backup our virtual servers, and I'd
recommend looking at that if you do go down the virtualisation route. I find
EMC's offerings on this front pretty lacking at present.
Veeam has some nice capabilities.
What we do with the Netware servers and Veeam is to backup just the SYS volume
of each server (who can remember how to install Netware from scratch these days
;-) We don't backup the data volumes on that server using Veeam, as a file
level restore would be a bit of a nightmare. This is purely to get our basic
Netware server up and going - quickly. We can then either re-attach the other
VMDK's (Netware volumes) or do file level restores from them using Networker.
There's a bit of duplication, but not a great deal, and as we're backing up to
a DataDomain that's not an issue wrt space.
Hope this helps.
Cheeers... allan.
Allan Nelson
CCS Lancaster
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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Mats Atari
Sent: 15 June 2011 11:40
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] netware backup - need advice
Hello NetWorker friends.
We're about to setup a new NetWorker installation (version 7.6_SP2), where
all clients are supported except for som NETWARE servers.
I'd like to take your advice on how to best protect these servers, most
prefferably via NetWorker - but all suggestions may apply.
I have a few scenarios, that I think of myself - but need confirmation on
which way is best - or if you have other suggestions - or already do
NETWARE backups succesfully with NetWorker 7.6.X
Background:
* Support for NETWARE backup clients ended per June 30th 2010.
* NetWorker 7.6 don't have support for 7.2 clients at all, which is the
latest NETWARE version available.
My Suggestions for a backup solution:
* Installing a NetWorker 7.5 server to backup NETWARE clients
* Virtualize NETWARE servers and back them up (.VMDK) via NetWorker + VADP
to a DataDomain
* Virtualize NETWARE servers and let vmware do VADP backups directly to a
DataDomain
* Use NETWARE's built-in backup tools (if they still exists?...) to backup
directly to DataDomain
* Use NETWARE's built-in backup tools (if they still exists?...) to backup
to a disk device accessible from backup server and then backup the backup
files from networker server to a DataDomain
Note:
I don't know if we're able to or admitted to virtualize the NETWARE
servers.
Any suggestions or thoughts appreciated...
Thanks
Mats Atari
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