Re: [Veritas-bu] Oracle Linux and BMR

The likely reason it worked is Oracle Linux is based on RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) which is supported.

“not supported” typically means vendors will work with you on something until it becomes too hairy then bail on you.

Of course the downside to modifying /etc/release is that Oracle’s own products may interrogate that file during installation or updates and complain. We had similar issue using “supported” products on RHEL5 from Oracle (App/DB) that hadn’t updated their distro/version routines to recognize RHEL5 for installation. Luckily the files were easy to locate and we modified their case statements to include RHEL5’s info.

I’m wondering if Oracle will abandon Oracle Linux now that they own Sun including OpenSolaris a competing open source product. (Or even vice-versa.)

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 1:50 PM
To: Wilcox, Donald A (GE, Research)
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Oracle Linux and BMR

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Wilcox, Donald A (GE, Research) <wilcox AT ge DOT com> wrote:

I have recently had an issue with BMR for Oracle Linux. The BMR portion of the backup will fail. I was told by Symantec that if I changed the /etc/release file to something other that oracle linux it would fix the issue. It did work after changing the file. My question is, is this issue being seen by anyone else and if so, how did you deal with it. Is is going to be fixed in NBU 7?

According to the client compatibility list, Oracle Linux is not supported as either a client nor as a BMR client. A bunch of different Linuxes are on the list but Oracle isn't one of them.

ftp://exftpp.symantec.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server/337048.pdf

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