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Difference between Agent for Linux and Remote Media Agent for Linux

Nene
Level 6
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Hi people,

Itz been quite sometime since i asked a question. I need your help again.

Please can somebody explain to me what the difference is between Agent for Linux and Remote Media Agent for Linux?

Does it have to do with any media on Linux?

Thank you for your usual support.

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Siddh
Level 4

Media Agent for Linux Servers

The Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Servers Remote Agent for Linux or UNIX Servers (Remote Agent) is installed as a separate, add-on component that enables Windows Server network administrators to perform backup and restore operations on Linux and UNIX hosts that are connected to the network. This agent must be running on these computers before backup or restore operations can be performed. When you install the Remote Agent for Linux or UNIX Servers on a Linux computer, you also install the Remote Media Agent for Linux Servers. However, you must provide a separate license key for the Remote Media Agent for Linux Servers if you want to use that option.

Remote Media Agent for Linux Servers (Remote Media Agent) is a separately licensed option that lets you back up data to the following devices:
The storage devices that are directly attached to a Linux server.
A simulated tape library on the Linux server.
You can back up data from the Linux server on which the Remote Media Agent is installed. Or, you can back up data from remote computers that have one of the following agents installed:
Remote Agent for Linux or UNIX Servers
Remote Agent for Windows and NetWare Systems
Remote Agent for Macintosh Systems
Remote Agent for Oracle on Linux or Windows Systems

How the Remote Media Agent works

The Remote Media Agent does not have a user interface. From the Backup Exec
media server, you add a Linux server as a Remote Media Agent. Then, you can
create backup, restore, and utility jobs on the Backup Exec media server and send
them to the storage devices that are attached to the Linux server.
You can add a Linux server as a Remote Media Agent to multiple Backup Exec
media servers. However, Backup Exec does not maintain a database of shared
Remote Media Agents unless you install the Shared Storage Option. Without the
Shared Storage Option, the backup jobs that one server submits can overwrite
the tapes that another server submits.

The Remote Media Agent establishes a data connection to the remote computers.
Data does not travel to the Backup Exec media server. Instead, data travels from
the Linux server to devices that are attached to the Linux server, which results
in an increase in job performance. This increase is especially apparent if the
Backup Exec media server is located at a different site than the Remote Media
Agent and the remote computers.

 Remote Agent for Linux or UNIX Servers

After the agent is configured, the Linux and UNIX host computers are ready for
backup. Whenbacking up data using the Remote Agent, Backup Exec enables you to protect
data using the following backup types:
■ Full
■ Differential - Using modified time
■ Incremental - Using modified time
■ Working set

Colin_Weaver
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In simple terms -

Agent for Linux (RALUS) on it's own provides the ability to backup data from a Linux System to storage devices attached to your media server

Remote Media Agent (RMAL) allows you to either attach a tape libary to your Linux system or make your linux system into a virtual storage device (b2d or vtl equivalent) so that you can backup the linux data directly to a device in the linux environment. RMAL can be used as a target device for local backups or RALUS installed on other Linux hosts as a 3-way..

 

 

Nene
Level 6
Partner Accredited

Hi Siddesh,

Thank you for the very educative response.

I understand what this says.

Now i need to ask, is there a Remote Media Agent for Windows as well?

Thank u.

Ken_Putnam
Level 6

Now i need to ask, is there a Remote Media Agent for Windows as well?

Nope

Often asked for, never delivered

pkh
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@siddh - part of your answer is quoted verbatim from this document

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO12155

Instead of quoting verbatim from a document, it would be better to refer the user to the original document.

Siddh
Level 4

Pkh: thanks for the technote, but I have not refer that technote for this post.

Ken: your right yet such option is not there.

Nene : What exactly ur looking for with this option in windows?? LAN free backup??

pkh
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I have not refer that technote for this post.

So it is by coincidence that your explanation for RMAL is word-for-word the same as the document.  

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO12155

Are you the author of this document?

Nene
Level 6
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Hey phk/siddh

I appreciate you both trying to get me answers to my questions.

It does not matter where the answers are from. as long as they are the right ones.

thank you.

pkh
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It does matter because without acknowledging the source, it is plagarism

Nene
Level 6
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Hi pkh,

i appreciate your support. thank u for the information.