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Re: [Networker] Debian Linux
2008-09-17 04:18:56
Preston de Guise wrote:
Matt.
On 17/09/2008, at 03:35 , Matt Powell wrote:
I am testing Legato 7.4 with SP2 and I was wondering if there was a
client
for Debian Linux? Anyone here have any experience working with that OS?
Your biggest problem is that it isn't supported - as such, if you run
into problems and want to log a call for issues on that particular
client, you will get significant push back from EMC support to the point
that you may not be able to get support at all.
It is true to say that it is not supported, but what are you supposed to
do in that case? Not back the box up? Move all your Linux boxes to a
supported distro?
One of the problems of an open source OS is that the enthusiastic users
don't manage to agree on a single distro. There are distros designed for
certain purposes (e.g. Ubuntu for ease of use, gentoo for optimisation
and customisation etc.) and no commercial software vendor such as EMC is
ever going to be willing and able to support all of them. However if you
accept the lack of support it should be possible to make NetWorker work
on any of them.
Personally I started on Slackware and moved to RedHat when it became
widely used. I left RedHat when they split into a commercial version and
Fedora and decided that gentoo was the best distro for my needs. I do
have NetWorker running (server and client) on gentoo so it shows that it
can be done. There is no ebuild for NetWorker and whatever method you
use to install it is a compromise. I have tried it with the rpmtocpio
method, but this doesn't install the startup script, so now I have
installed RPM on my machines and have to take care of the dependencies
manually.
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