Omniback/dataprotector on VMS yet?

[antony wardle]

So can Omniback run on VMS yet?

Antony

[Lokesh_2]

Hi,

I have not heard of this yet.

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/storage/backup.html

Thanks & regards,
Lokesh Jain

[Håkan Persson_1]

DP5.1 supports VMS, at least the disk agents. You cant run the server part on VMS.

[David Harrold]

Yes it can. We just finished an evaluation of it and have ordered it withour new tape library. The Cell Manager (server) is either windows or Unix only at this point. The Disk Agenat and Media agent are available for VMS. The disk agent allows Data Protector to read data from disks. The media agent allows the tape drives on your VMS system to be used to write data.

We were very impresses with the product in our testing.

Dave Harrold

[antony wardle]

Thanks for that, I will see if I can find it, and have a play. My Omniback server is a UNIX machine, and for VMS, backups are local. I am assuminging that it is only going to be supported on Modern versions of VMS, so that will limit me to about 10 of 50 odd machines ;-(

cheers

antony

[Asif_8]

Hi !

Where I download the diskagent and media agent for Dataprotector 5.5 or 5.1 for testing and how to configure it

[Uwe Zessin]

Asif,
was there a problem with the respones in your own thread?

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=776061

[Asif_8]

I not found UNIXCD or Windows CD

[Antony Wardle_1]

Ok, I got it on and it seems to go fairly well. I guess the only thing that you can't do with this is to restore the system disk to a new system, as it looks like you need to restore files to a machine that is running VMS and the DP agent.

How do people get around this?

[Jan van den Ende]

Antony,

somehow you managed to get 2 different ITRC accounts (1 all lowercase, 1 capitalised).
(I noticed because you ANSWERED your own stream, instead of 'clarifying', which would show in the answer heading as "N/A: Question autor")

If you post that to
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/familyhome.do?familyId=295
a moderator will help you resolve it!

Proost.

Have one on me.

Jan

[Jan van den Ende]

On the "get around the system disk restore":

It seems you are expected to have a rather recent (suggested: monthly) native VMS backup of your system disk with the client installed. If needed, you first restore THAT, and after that you can start the rest of the restore.

Precisely the main reason why we are (still ?) not doing it, although there is quite some preasure to integrate VMS backup as well.

It will probably be very hard/near impossible to convince VMS oldtimers to replace BACKUP by anything that does not have native VMS backup at the core. Trust takes a long time to grow!

Proost.

Have one on me.

Jan

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Jan,

I also have 2 accounts. HP is not able to add features to an old one ...

Wim