Yes you can, I made a many implementation as this one and until today is 
working fine, without problems.


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DATAPROTEC Consulting Ltda.
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-----Original Message-----
From:  Ed Wilts 
Date:  7/15/06 12:50 pm
To:  veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subj:  Re: [Veritas-bu] Unix Master, Windows Media server possible?

On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 02:15:30PM -0500, David Rock wrote:
> * Siano, James C <james.c.siano at lmco.com> [2006-07-15 00:17]:
> > Can one have a Unix master and a Windows 200x media server?  Wasn't sure
> > if I could have that combo.
> 
> Yes, but it is highy recommended to NOT mix UNIX and Windows media
> servers using the same SSO drives.  

We've been doing this since the beginning and it's never caused us any
problems.  On what do you base this recommendation?

> Actually, it is necessary to be able to mix media server types because
> of requirements at times.  For example, mounting a Windows filesystem on
> a UNIX media server for off host backing up of SAN snapshots doesn't
> work well.

Perhaps not, but FlashBackup of a Windows mount point on a Unix media
server does work well.

> As long as you aren't trying to share tape drives between the different
> media servers, you should be fine.

I don't see what the issue here.  It's supported and it works (for us).

        .../Ed

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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