Backup OpenVMS from Windows
Hi,
I know very little about netbackup but have been asked if I can find something out about backing up OpenVMS so apologies if this question seems rather vague.
One of our clients is running Windows Server 2008 and has an Integrity server running OpenVMS 8.3.
I have been asked to find out if netbackup running on the Widows server and accessing the client on the VMS box can actually backup the VMS files to the windows server, and if needed restore from this back to the VMS box?
I have read through the Netbackup User Guide for OpenVMS and I get the impression netbackup can only me used to manage the backup on the VMS box, not actually backup files from it but could do with knowing for certain.
Thanks in advance.
Andy
Andy,
Yes this is possible. You can use any supported media server to backup any support clients.
So if your clients Windows 2008 server is configured as a Media server then there is no problem with that set-up. We don't support OpenVMS as Media servers so it has to be done my another Media server with a different OS either Linux, Windows or Solaris.
For example:
Linux or Solaris Media server can backup Windows clients, Unix/Linux clients, OpenVMS clients
Windows Media server can backups Windows clients, Unix/Linux clients, OpenVMS clients