After lots of up and back and contradictory information, I also got the
response that George received. To back up different flavors of UNIX
(that is, different than the NW server's UNIX), we need the ClientPak
for UNIX.
Originally we were being told by some folks at Legato that we didn't
need it. When we asked them to put it in writing before we removed it
from our support contract, the story changed :-)
Teresa
-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
On Behalf Of George Sinclair
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 3:21 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] ClientPak for Unix?
I just spoke with Licensing and Registration at Legato and was told that
you do in fact need to have the "ClientPak for Unix" in order to back up
various flavors of non-Linux Unix. Perhaps one possible source of
confusion is how the product is named or appears in the registration
window. Later base enablers may report something like ".... for Unix" in
the name? possibly leading one to conclude that all flavors of non-linux
Unix can be used or are supported? Hmm ... Anyway, they tell me that you
still need the ClientPak if the clients are not running that same
flavor.
And, of course, ClientPak for NeWare, Mac, Windows, Linux depending.
And, if you remove the "ClientPak for Unix" to test, you may not be able
to easily add it back. You might need to work with support to re-enable
a
previously enabled product.
George
> Based on everything I've been told, I think Teresa is right: If your
> Networker server is hosted on Unix box (say, Solaris), then you can
back
> up any flavor of Unix (AIX, Solaris, HPUX, etc) without having to buy
> the ClientPak for Unix. However, if you want to backup a Windows box,
> you would need the ClientPak for Windows (which also gives you the
> ability to back up any version of Windows clients - NT4, W2K, W2K
> Server, Server 2003, etc). Likewise as soon you want to back up a
Linux
> client, you would need the ClientPak for Linux. Again, this ClientPak
> give you the ability to back up any version of Linux (Red Hat, Debian,
> Suse, etc.) as long as the client software is available. Of course,
> this changes if the OS that is hosting the Networker server changes,
but
> the same rules apply.
>
> As for the BSD's (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc), I don't think they are
> officially supported at all. At one point someone had written a
client
> for FreeBSD, but I don't think it's being supported and more, and I'm
> not sure which ClientPak you would need for it. It's not a Linux, so
> I'm guessing the Unix one, but I'm not sure. I don't know if using
> FreeBSD's ability to run Linux binaries would work either. Hmm...
>
> David
>
>
>
>
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