We have several Fedora Core "servers" getting backed up all the time with no 
extra modification.  No FC 5 but we have at least one from every other FC 
distro.  We use them for minor services (like wiki page for the network team 
only, software store for the network team only, etc.).  We also use Cent OS 
more recently and that seems to work ok also although we only have one or two 
of those.  My experience thus far has been as long as the kernel ver. is 
supported and you are not using a heavily "altered" distro it will probably 
work with little or no "extra" tweaks.  We have OES 9 (SuSE), Arch Linux, Cent 
OS, RHEL 1-4, FC 1-4, we had SLES for a while working in a Novell environment 
(with our masters being in an NT domain, that section broke away so no longer 
our problem), and ESX.

As far as the master/media servers though we use RHEL.  Those are too important 
to have on an unsupported platform.  The last thing we need is to have a 
problem and have support tell us it's our fault for using an unsupported OS ;-)

Phil Koster
Network Administrator
City of Grand Rapids
Direct: 616-456-3136
Helpdesk: 456-3999

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 8:37 PM
To: Allen, Jimmy
Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup running on fedora 5

Allen, Jimmy wrote:
> 
> Our environment
> Netbackup 5.1 mp1 running on a Solaris 2.9 master server
> IBM3584 Tape library with 12 LOT2's and 3 LTO3's
> 

> Are there any issues running Netbackup media servers and clients on a 
> Fedora 5 OS.

The compatibility matrix is online at
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/263839.htm

Fedora Core 5 is not supported as either a client or a media server. 
You can probably make it work, but no Fedora Core version will likely ever be 
supported.  If you want a supported environment, you'll need to upgrade the 
clients and the servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  You should also consider 
upgrading your master server to the latest MP.

        .../Ed

--
Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org

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