[Networker] NetWorker on Intel-based Mac

Since I know a few people on this list are interested in backing upnew Macs, I thought I would discuss the testing I did today.

My curiosity finally got the better of me. I brought my MacBook Pro(first generation) to work today, put it on our network and then Idid three things.

First, I installed Windows Vista Enterprise Edition via Parallels.The installation went fairly smoothly. I think had to spend a bit oftime figuring out how to get Windows Vista to see my network, turnoff the security crap, and I finally got to install the NetWorker7.2.2 client on it. I then was able to start the NetWorker remoteservice after configuring it to see my NetWorker 7.2.1 server. I thencreated a small file and I backed up the entire installation (i.e., C:\ drive). The backup worked okay, except that it failed to do the ASRthing and I suspect it failed to create something I could use in abare metal restore, due to the errors I received; however, it didback up my small amount of data and I was able to recover the datafine. I figure that EMC will come out with a Windows Vista awareclient pretty soon, but that's just an assumption on my part.

I then shut down Vista and I installed the latest NetWorker for Macclient. I am running a fully patched and updated system on my MacBookPro. I installed the client on my MBP, then I changed the start upscript to point to my backup server. Trouble is, I could not get anynsrexecd daemons to run at all. They generate a crash long which Icannot interpret.

Several days ago, I submitted a service request via the powerlink website to ask about the availability of a NetWorker client for Intel-based Macs. While I was at it, I also asked about an official FreeBSDclient. I checked today and that request does not appear to existnow. Sigh!

I don't see why I can run the Windows version of the NetWorker clienton my Intel-based Mac, but not the Mac OS X version. Its the samehardware and the Mac's file system hasn't changed in ages as far as Iknow.

So, that's my experience with trying NetWorker backups on an Intel-based Mac. I am hoping that an Intel-based client is offered forNetWorker, esp. since I will soon have a MacPro sitting on my diskand I have one department who will probably want to set up an AppleXserve to host about 1TB worth of data.

If anyone else on this list has managed to have a dialogue with anEMC official on this subject, please let me know.


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