newbie question 1

[fabio9]

Sorry for eventually duplicated message, but for some reason our proxy crashed (!) while I was writting this message, and actually I can't see it in the forum..so...

We are evaluating netbackup 6.5.4 in a mixed enviroment, master and media server on two windows 2008x64 machines.
A simple question...

Is for a server mandatory to have a (netbackup) client installed to be backupped ?
I mean...i.e. I have to backup some files under some directoryes in some microsoft servers.Whith the "up and running" backup solution actually installed (c.a. brightstor arcserve) , I browse the network, expand the servers, and with the administrative shares I select the directories and the files I need to backup. No client at all is used.Under netbackup when I try to define a new policy and I add a server (browsing the net) withouth any client installed, I can't see his filesystem. After all netbackup do not ask me for an administrative user, and his services can run with localsystem account, so I think that without a client I can't backup anything.

Am I right ?
tnx in advance.

 

[johngiggs]

fabio9,

As far as I know, you do need to install the client, however depending on how you want to do your backups, you may be able to achieve what you want to do by using CIFS/Samba and mounting a share from a Windows box on a Unix server. You can also use other tools to copy the data (if you're not backing up the entire server) to another server via a Scheduled Task in Windows.

Hope that helps.

John

 

[fabio9]

Thanks for your answer.

I also digged into manuals, I need to install a client in every server.

Problem solved.