hcl backup exec 2010

[eduzav]

Hy, I viewed on HCL that red hat 2 distribution ralus agent is not supported on backup exec 2010 r2, is it true?

I have 3 old linux and the idea is install ralus agent on them.

what do you think?

thanks

[AmolB]

BE2010 R2 supports Redhat Enterprise 4.0 - 5.4 only.

[Ken_Putnam]

You may be able to finagle things so that the Agent installs, and even runs, and may actually get it to backup. You could even try installing a back level RALUS agent that does support RH 2   But you are totally on your own should you ever have any problems.  

I certainly would not trust my production data to such a setup. 

[eduzav]

Ok I'm going to configure a testing environment to do that.

Where can I download the old version of ralus agent for rad hat 2 which runs with backup exec 2010?

[pkh]

BE 2010 can only talk to a BE 12.5 agent.  BE 12.5 does not support RHEL 2, so you are out of luck.

[eduzav]

Anyway, I couldn't install the ralus for be2010 on red hat 2 distribution.

I get a missed package error.

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH52256

[rendersr]

A possible workaround could be to create a SMB share and select the share in Backup Exec. Or dump the data on another share.

That's how I did it this week when I had an unsupported AIX machine.

@pkh: are you sure that it isn't working?

[eduzav]

Yes, actually I do the backup on a share of another server with be2010 agente installed, but it is more prolix to do it directly!!

[Ken_Putnam]

@rrenders

are you sure that it isn't working?

It may connect and it may not.  It may backup, and it may not.  If it does, it may stop working at any time.

Since the RH version is not on the SCL, if it ever does fail, Symantec will not help you try to recover your data.  Any kludge you come up with is entirely on you.