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 Ker Asmodai I recall running a RedHat box for development purposes about 5 years ago when I was a sysadmin for Hyder. Their main backup solution was Veritas NetBackup running on an AIX box, with clients for AIX, Digital UNIX, and DG/UX. I wanted to include the RedHat boxen in the nightly backup (I didn't want to loose all my source code - especially because the machine was known to have prior HDD failures). Both Legato and Veritas (at the time, the two best backup platforms for UNIX) had Motif clients, and could have ported their backup solutions to that platform - in fact, I heard someone mutter that Veritas could do a static-build Motif binary for RedHat. But, unfortunately, one company's will to have NetBackup on Linux didn't do much good. Now though, you can get Veritas software that runs on Linux. Its pretty costly from what I've seen though. Eventually, I ended up shunting a QIC-150 tapedrive onto the box, and using the original backup software - mt + cpio + tar. It good, decent enterprise-scale backup software was released for Linux (opoen source, or other), it could make a big difference. Right now though, its this kind of mindset: Linux or Solaris.... Solaris has Veritas... 
[ Kernel Asmodai ] [ CSA - Commanding Officer ] [ CAIRC - Server Co-admin | Services Operator ] [ OSI - Project Wyvern Lead Kernel Developer ] [ Other - Lead OS Developer - Kaladix ] "... it is easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all. In other words ... their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws." -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, on the products of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. Replies:
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