Grpwise 6 and Arcserve 7 with grpwise option.

[slappa]

The problem,

1, First off does anyone know if the grpwise agent for arcsevrve 7 supports, grpwise 6.

2, Primary Server has the tape drive nw6, arcserve 7 (all pateched up), Mail server runs grpwise (grpwise 6)

When loading the grpwise agent on the mail server, this error.

groupwise agent detetcted a problem loading the OFA, and it unloads. The CA knowledgebase was usless cannot find anything.

Does anyone know if the GWTSA's and the nw 6 open file agent's built into the os are supported by arcserve yet?

Any help or idea's would be appreciated.

Cheers.

Slappa

 

[Provogeek]

6.0 Support is not there yet.

http://support.ca.com/techbases/asnw7/asnw7_18088.html

Look at St Bernard OFA

http://www.stbernard.com/

It's the same thing CAI distributes with Arcserve, they just license it and slap thier name on it. Support for both 6 and NSS is in St. Bernard.

Also, having the GroupWise agent and Open File agent on the same box is redundant. They are the same thing, just the GroupWise version is disabled to work only with GroupWise databases.
Brent Schmidt CNE, Network +
Senior Network Engineer

Why do user go into a panic when a NetWare server goes down, but accept it as normal when a Windows server goes down?

 

[seancane]

If your Groupwise is set up correctly, and your server is stable, you can bypass the Groupwise agent (horrible) and the OFA (even more horrible) by using cron.nlm to unload your Groupwise MTA/POA/GWIA so that nothing is accessing any GW files. Therefore, your backup will be perfect. The cron has the ability to perform tasks down to the minute, so you can start your backup at 11pm, and tell CRON to shut down GW at 12:15am, which is just before the backup begins to hit the GW portion. Cron can then restart GW at 12:35 when you can be sure GW has already been fully backed up. Obviously I invented these numbers to make a point, not to be followed explicitly.

As for OFA, I have not found that it truly allowed me to back up a file that was open any moer than using standard parameters on the backup software itself (like telling the backup to backup files without putting a lock on it, which is why open files can fail a backup)



Sean