Hello, I'm unable to figure this out for days, and symantec wants 89$ to answer me on the phone. I've sent symantec support the questions 1 week ago, but I had no answer.
I hope somebody can help. Here we go:
We have purchased BE11d Media server. We need to know if this product covers our needs or we need something better.
We have 1 windows server, 2 linux servers and one LTO-3 Tape Library (with 1 drive) 2 FiberChannel storages, all interconnected through a FiberChannel switch.
Suppose we install BackupExec on a separate windows machine, and the appropriate clients to the servers. Then:
Q1: Do the agents backup the files directly to the tape through FC or are the files transfered to the BE media server and then to the tape?
Q2: Does the BE Media server needs to access the tape through FC or just connect to the agents (via ethernet) and the agents transfer the files directly to and from the tape? (of course we prefer that)
Q3:If direct file transfer between the agents and the tape is not possible, could we assign IP to the FC interfaces to trick the software?
Q4:We also want to use the library to transfer lto-3 tapes written with backupexec on a windows machine (given to us by another company), to our linux servers. Can this be done? (linux agent reading directly from tape and writing to the FC storage)?
Thank you.
Spiros Ioannou
Electrical Engineer,
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