Johan Björklund wrote:

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 17:25 CET, Davina Treiber <Treiber AT HOTPOP DOT COM> wrote:

I don't know what it is exactly that you are trying to achieve here, but if it helps, do you know that you can use your Linux client to control the recovery of a client on any platform, and write the data back to a different client of the correct type?

Hello,

as a collegue of Oscar I can explain.

What we are trying to achive is to have fully automated restore tests in
our environment using directed recovery to a scripting host. We
guarantee i our SLA:s that we do restore tests once a month. It's to
time consuming to this manually on a few hunderd hosts.

The automated restore test procedure is thightly integrated with our
monitoring platform which runs on Linux. The recover script runs on a
scripting host and tries to recover the specified file of the host. Each
host can specify a file of their choice. On successful recovery we check
that the file does contain something before the status of the recover i
determied (and thats why we need directed recovery). We would like to be
able to this only using one scripting host.

Our only choice right now seems like we must install a windows server
with legato software and cygwin on it. Port our scripting environment to
cygwin, set up automated syncs of configuration files etc etc just to be
able to test restores. Doable in a day, but annoying.

Do anyone know if there is some method that allows us to do cross
platform directed recoveries? Or are we stuck with installing one
scripting server for each platform we backup?

//JB

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