Backup Exec 2010 R2 and Macs

[wcaubrey]

I am trying to back up a Mac. I followed the only instructions I could find, which were in the help file, and I've run into a wall. I have a few questions. I ran the installrams file and went through the setup process, put in the IP of the backup server, and everything said it was successful. I ran SystemStarter start VRTSrams to start the agent. Next it says you have to create a group called "admin" if it wasn't automatically created. Is this in the GUI? If so, where do you do that? I see in /etc/group that there is already a group called admin there, but I'm not sure that's what they're talking about. So here are my questions.

1. Where do I create the admin group?

2. Does the Mac OS have to be a server OS to be backed up? Some places say Macintosh Server, and some say Macintosh Systems, it's not clear.

3. How do I then get the Mac into the list of servers that can be backed up?

Sorry for the long list, but the docs for this either don't exist or are hard to find.

[AmolB · Accepted solution]

Hello 

1) For the 1st question refer to http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO23475

2) For the 2nd question refer to http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH137682

    BE will support the OS which is mentioned in the SCL.

3) Once the remote agent is installed, MAC will publish information to the media

    server. Open the selection list, you will fiind the MAC server under favorite 

    resources -> Linu\Unix\Mac

[wcaubrey]

1. That article leads to this article: http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO23475
which is exactly the same vague set of instructions that are in the help file, which is why I posted here in the first place, it doesn't explain HOW to create the group, it just says see the Mac documentation.

2. Ok, that doc says workstation and server, which leads me to...

3. The remote agent is installed, I listed the BE server by IP during the install, and I started it as mentioned above, but it's not showing up there.

Any further help would be greatly appreciated.

[wcaubrey]

Hey, I rebooted the Mac, and it's showing up in the favorites now, and I can browse it, so I think I'm good. I'll run a test backup, if I run into any problems, I'll update the thread.