I’ll echo Ed’s
thoughts. With the UNIX master you’ll have far more control over the
solution from the command line than you do with Windows. I’ve written many
a script to deal with multiple media servers and was stymied in incorporating
our one Windows media server into those scripts except by using the command line
utilities on UNIX that will talk to the daemons on Windows. With the
others I could write scripts that directly ran utilities on the media servers
using ssh.
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Hi
Rudy,
There are several
issues here. First, you cannot upgrade from Unix to Windows (or Windows to
Unix) for a master server. No form of migration is supported – you would
have to build a brand new environment and import your tapes to get them
cataloged.
We used to run a
Windows master server back in 3.4 days and migrated to Solaris (yes, it was
unsupported and really, really ugly to do but we pulled it off). We
don’t regret the migration at all – the management tools on Solaris are
*much* more complete than they are
on Windows and adding things on (e.g. mrtg monitoring of tape drives, queues,
tapes, etc.) is much easier to do.
Earlier this week
we rebooted our Windows media server and it took another couple of reboots to
bring the tape drives back. This is unfortunately typical. In
several years, I only remember 1 or 2 reboots required on our Solaris media
servers due to tape drive issues.
If you’re a 100%
Windows shop, then a Windows master server might make sense (although something
like Commvault might make even more sense since end users can do their own
restores). Otherwise, leave the master on a Unix platform of some sort –
HPUX, Solaris, or Linux. I don’t have any AIX
experience.
That’s my 2 bits
worth.
…/Ed
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View, MN, USA
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Master Server
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We are planning an upgrade from
version 5.0 MP1 to version 6.0 MP4. Currently we use an HPUX master server and
we are thinking of migrating to a windows 2003 master server. I am not sure how
stable a windows master server is. Do anyone have experience with a windows
master server. From most of the posting, it seems most folks are using Unix
master server.
Thanks,
Rudy