Connecting a win 2008 Index server to a Linux media server

[Dm33]

Hi All - I'm new to Netbackup and was tasked with adding a Windows 2008 Netbackup Index server to a SLES 10 Linux media server. So my question is can you add a Windows 2008 Netbackup index server to A Linux NetBackup 7.5 media and master server. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Everything I've read to date says I need to be running a Windows Netbackup 7.5 media and master server Regards DM

[RamNagalla · Accepted solution]

hi DM,

yes, only Windows 2008 is supported to be as index server.

below is the snip from Netbackup search admin guide chapter 2

Installing NetBackup Search

The following deployment scenarios are supported for NetBackup Search in the

NetBackup 7.5 release:

■ Indexing server

The NetBackup indexing server must be installed on a NetBackup media server.

The indexing server is supported only on Windows 2008 R2 (x64) systems. The

Indexing server can support Pure IPv6 if it is on a dual stack computer with

no public IPv4 address, and the etc/host has the following entry:

127.0.0.1 localhost loopback

For details on support for Pure IPv6 on NetBackup refer to the NetBackup

Administrators guide.

[Mark_Solutions]

The Indexing Server must be Windows 2008 R2 x64 but i cannot see an issue with using that with a Linux Master Server (the Media Server is irrelevant here)

You also need an OpsCenter Server up and running to use it so ensure you have one of those installed and configured with your Master Server added to its configuration.

The Indexing server itself must be a Media Server - so add it to the Master Servers Host Properties - Servers section under Additional Servers and Media Servers section and then re-start NetBackup on the Master to register this.

Next, again under Host Properties - Indexing Servers just right click and Add your indexing server in then open it up and add a schedule

But to answer you question there should be no problem with your Master being Linux

Take a look on your Master server under /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/ ... you should find nbindexutil

If so that does show that it can handle controlling an indexing server as that is the command used for querying your indexing servers jobs

Hope this helps

[Dm33]

Thank You for your response. Mark_solutions mentioned there is no issue with adding a Win 2008 Index server to a Unix NetBackup environment (specifically adding it to the Master Server running on Suse Linux.

I wanted to make sure this is the case.

As always all help is appreciated,

Regards,

DM