So,

With NT masters, are the same CLI available (ie, will I use tpconfig
to configure my robot)?

thank you,
Josh


>From: "McMurphy, Tim" <Tim.McMurphy AT cdcgy DOT com>
>To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] windows vs. UNIX master
>Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 08:29:23 -0700
>
>Personally I would go with Unix for master and slaves. Especially if you 
>are
>backing up Netware 4.11 clients (see below).
>
>1) We started with Netbackup 3.11 and were getting "socket read errors" 
>when
>we backed up large Netware servers to the WinNT slave. The job would abort
>and start over. After contacting Veritas tech support we isolated the
>problem to the TCP/IP stack on the WinNT slave. Veritas told us the name of
>the file we needed to get but that we had to get it from Microsoft. This 
>was
>before service pack 3 so I called Microsoft with our MSDN support and lied
>about this being on a non-production server (otherwise they won't give it 
>to
>you!). Once this hot fix was applied all was well. Service pack 3 fixed 
>this
>problem with Microsoft's TCP/IP stack.
>
>2) When doing large restores from the WinNT slave to the Netware servers we
>would get "socket write errors". Sound familiar? Yet another problem with
>WinNT's TCP/IP stack! As of service pack 6 this still has not been fixed.
>The workaround that the engineers found for us was to use one of the 
>Solaris
>slaves to restore to the Netware server. We have restored up to 30 gig in 9
>hours without a problem this way whereas we would not get more that 1 gig
>restored before failing when using the WinNT slave. Luckily we had other
>Unix slaves!
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Josh Evans [mailto:josh_evans_111 AT hotmail DOT com]
>Sent: 01 February, 2001 4:40 PM
>To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: [Veritas-bu] windows vs. UNIX master
>
>
>Hello,
>
>I have good experience with UNIX (solaris & AIX) master servers, but none 
>on
>
>NT.  Is there anyone out there that has done both?  If so, how do they
>compare?  Is UNIX far and away preferable?  How about if the NT master is
>backing up a heterogenious environment (UNIX & NT)?
>
>thank you,
>Josh
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