open-e - Testing

July 3, 2008 · Print This Article

Got an open-e DSS Lite (1TB) free install working at a clients. What I have done so far is tested this thing with BackupExec 11D.

Great news is that is does backup, you have to make sure that you select it to back up from the legacy backup agents (also make sure under the Veritas backup agent you have it setup with your BE11D server address and a password - AND create a login account in BE with that password).

Next to test is volume replication and snapshots. Wanting to replace the linux setup I put in place last year, and get around the issue of more than 1 library cartridge getting used for a full backup on the weekends.

Will post up any new finds later (including a FreeNAS install for another that requires a very simple NAS setup).

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2 Responses to “open-e - Testing”

  1. Ktrang on July 9th, 2008 3:23 pm

    I tried what you said and it doesn’t appear to work. We are running 11D with DSS and have setup the password to be “test” I can view the files in the selection list under Legacy Agents fine, but the actual backup fails. Any ideas? Thanks.

  2. Vic on July 16th, 2008 3:30 pm

    First in the DSS backup agent settings, you put in a password and the BE11D server IP address.

    Then in BE11D, make sure that you create a BE11d user -> view -> logon accounts -> I gave it username “admin”, I don’t think it matters, and then the same password as the DSS backup agent settings password field.

    Then it should work. Have you tested with a disk to disk backup? This avoids any hardware tape wierdness that may be the issue perhaps…

    Vic

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