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From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
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Subject: Re: BackupExec Unix Agent - Any Success?
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 09:49:42 -0700
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----- Original Message -----
From: "James Long" <list@museum.rain.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 9:39 AM


> On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 08:43:09AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> >
> > I'm aware that BackupExec is not the best choice for backing up
FBSD
> > boxes.  However, I'm in a Windows oriented shop and that is their
> > product of choice and thus my only option at this time.  If I can
get
> > this to work, at least I'll *have* backups.  :)
>
> First, I do not have any direct solution to your BE for Linux
problem.
>
> That said, I accomplish this by building tar backups on the FBSD
boxen,
> then copying those tar files onto a drive on the WinNT BE server,
where
> they then get backed up to tape.

Thanks for your suggestion.  This is what I will do as a "second"
choice providing there is enough space on the NT server.

Drew


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