[CLUE-Tech] tape backups

[Mike Staver]

Well, we have backup exec 8.6 for windows at work, and it lets us edit a
job log in notepad and save it from there, or copy it to wherever you
want to.  And yeah, I agree, the credentials thing you can only set and
actually run the backup to see if it works.  What I have noticed is
really strange though is that when I'm backing up a linux box using
samba to share the files, it greys out the checkbox on the system so I
have to attach to it by setting up the \\server\sharename path, and only
then will it attach.  I didn't know backup exec could tell a difference
between a windows share and a samba share, but on our network it seems
to.  

David Anselmi wrote:
> 
> Mike Staver wrote:
> > Yeah, I'm actually used to Veritas Backup Exec for windows, and I love
> > how it catalogs what is on a tape, and the tapes are given an
> > identifiying name, so when you do an inventory, you know what's on it.
> 
> I suppose the catalog is nice, and we have a fancy robot library so I
> can't complain.  But there are things I really dislike about Veritas.
> Like you can't tell what credentials it will use to back up a remote
> system, short of just setting them.  You can get a text description of
> what a job will back up but you can't copy it out of BE to paste it into
> your docs.  Oh well, maybe I'll like it better after I go to school on it.
> 
> Dave
> 
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