Does anyone have any advice about using NetBackup
LiveUpdate? I’ve read the chapter in the Admin Guide and it is a
bit thin on examples. I’ve trawled Symantec Connect which does have
some useful comment, not least to avoid upper or mixed case in the path
to any shares.
What I want to do is try it out in an environment where the
Master and Media Servers are all UNIX (Solaris SPARC) but the client and
some SAN Media Servers are a mixed bag of Windows & various UNIX. It’s
clear that is supposed to work. However it will be hard for me to set up
a web server to use http or https transport (lots of rules and hoops to jump
through), so I’d prefer a LAN transport.
I note that using a CIFS share that only works if you make
it totally insecure and enable null sessions – can’t to that anyhow
as our NFS/CIFS is all NAS appliances, not servers that can be tweaked to be
insecure. What I can’t quite grasp is how a Windows client
needing an update can talk to a UNIX liveupdate server. Is the ‘share’
actually just a path that means something to the liveupdate server, or does the
client being upgraded also need to be able to mount the share? How can
that work if it has no NFS client?
William D L Brown
