Hi,
I feel I should clarify my original posting a little bit in light of the
Legato discussion.
I (and the others) was asking about a Backup Solution that runs on a
*Linux* server !!! Legato does NOT run on Linux (AFAIK). Besides that
Legato is quite pricey, too (at least last time I asked).
The Linux client of Legato is VERY lousy and actually not fully supported
(I was told so by Legato tech support !). The guy who wrote it left the
company and was very surprised when I mailed him about the client. If
Legato where to take Linux seriously they would not present the Linux
community with such a lousy product (which is in faxt a port from another
Unix) but rather create a client which runs on any Linux system and is
user friendly with a GUI and everything neccessary.
The Legato Linux client supports only RH and not Linux in general, this is
a big big shame for any serious company not to understand that RH and
Linux are not the 100% same and that there are many other Linux
distributions that equal RH or are even better. For example, I managed to
install the Legato Linux client RPM only by doing a manual install and
patching the files into the OS in the right places.
In addition to the installation difficulties (the client actually works on
all recent Linux systems IMHO) it turns out that it is extremely
user-unfriendly: no nice GUI, no manual, no step-by-step instructions ...
In short, I couldn't ask somebody who is not a skilled and experienced
Legato operator to restore some files (I did point out user friendliness
in my original posting !).
I think I can claim proficiency in this topic since at one of my jobs we
use Legato as enterprise backup solution and I spent enough time
dealing with the various shortcomings of Legato, especially on Linux. I
can testify that I am very satisfied with it as Backup, but the Linux
support is just very very bad and this is why Legato falls out of
consideration for any Linux related backup situation.
Sincerely,
Schlomo Schapiro
PS: I am still interested in hearing reports about Linux backup servers !
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, netvision wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes you missed!
>
> >From the home page www.legato.com you can do the following:
>
> 1. Sitemap -> Related links -> Current Products -> NetWorker for Linux
> Client
>
> 2. Quick Link -> Compatability Guides -> Software Compatability Guide.
>
> Version 5.2.1 of NetWorker for Linux Client is bundled in Legato's kit
> since May 2000. In the Software Compatability Guide the official
> release (Validated) supports Red Hat 5.2, 6.0 . Un-Officially customers
> are using Red Hat 6.1, 6.2 as well. For these versions one must use
> the shared library libncurses.so.3.0 that is bundled with the Red Hat
> 6.0
> distribution CD (ncurses3-1.9.9e-9.i386.rpm). This solution is valid
> for Mandrake 2.2.14-15 too.
>
> 3. In the upper left corner of the home page, use the 'search' option for
> the word 'linux' and you'll find interesting papers regarding Linux
> backup
> solutions. One of them, #39 - "The Linux Challenge Product literature"
> is very interesting.
>
> 4. You can also try Linux for Legato Cluster and download it. This is an
> High
> Availability product that is running also on Solaris & NT. Uppon
> request
> I can provide more details and demostrate it.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> Avi Koski
>
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> ðåùà: Re: áòðééï: Backup Solutions
>
>
> >n>> I wonder you didn't mention NetWorker product from Legato -
> >n>> www.legato.com , that has the biggest installed base Worldwide, as
> >n>> well as above 250 installations in Israel. The distributer of this
> >
> >Was I looking very bad or Legato solutions doesn't support Linux?
> >At least, Networker has no mention of Linux on site, Celestra neither,
> >same with Replica. Did I miss something on the site?
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