I agree with Mark. linux is not working well if you have SSO. There is a
technote that point on this. But we are using linux media servers (and master)
for many of our customers.
The trick is to configure the drives when all drive are idle and then edit the
netbackup script to commend the make_scsi_dev line. That way netbackup works
fine with linux systems even with SSO (tested as I seid with many
installations) .The only realy bad is that the duplication of windows buckups
using linux as alternate media server fail at the EOM ( tested with ES4)
stefanos
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Mark.Donaldson at cexp.com
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Are Linux media servers OK to use?
> Sent: 20 Jul '06 20:07
>
> We had trouble sharing tape drives with Linux via SSO.??Linux saw a
> reserved tape drive as unavailble & didn't built it in.??Since it builds
> the device list every time it starts, drives were appearing &
> disappearing all the time.??You can kludge around it but any update from
> Veritas would probably require that everything be re-kludged.
>
> Had a tkt open with Veritas for weeks until the answer finally came back
> that "it just works that way".
>
> We haven't tried it since our latest Linux upgrade to the 2.6 kernel -
> don't know if things changed or now.
>
> We also had trouble with QLogic drivers crashing Linux but that's not
> Veritas' fault.
>
> If you're attaching a dedicated drive to your media server, I'd say, "no
> problem".??Otherwise, I'd suggest that you test, test, test.
>
> -M
>
>
>
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> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
> Ian.Fehring at nab.com.au
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> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Are Linux media servers OK to use?
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>
> Hi all,
>
> We are looking at connecting up several Linux media servers running
> either
> RHEL3 or RHEL4, and wanting to know what people think of them. The
> hardware
> will probably be IBM Intel servers. Our environment is NBU 6.0 with STK
> PowderHorn and SL8500 tape libraries, with 9940 and T10000 tape drives.
>
> Has anyone go any/many of these in their environments, and if so, what
> do
> you think of them. Is throughput good? Do they have many issues?
>
> We will be connecting a few TB of disk to them to use as a disk staging
> pool, and then off-loading the data onto tape (DSSU).
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Ian Fehring
>
> Lead Technical Specialist, Storage Management
>
> National Australia Bank
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