VAX HP Data Protector?

[Don P.]

Is there a version of HP Data Protector that will run on VAX OpenVMS? Thanks!

[Volker Halle]

Don,

welcome to the OpenVMS ITRC forum.

Although I have no practical experience with HP OpenVMS Data Protector, I would assume, that this product is not available on OpenVMS VAX.

This assumption seems to be supported by the 'hp OpenView storage data protector 6.0
Platform & Integration Support Matrices'

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00766438/c00766438.pdf

Volker.

[Don P.]

Thanks very much for the response Volker. Yes, I had already read the support matrices you added the link for. I guess my question should be "Is there a workaround that will allow us to run HP Data Protector on our vax/vms 7.1 system?" ie. we have run vax/vms 7.3 programs on our vax/vms 7.1 system by copying 7.3 rtl's over, redefining the rtl, etc. I am wondering if there is a way to make HP DP work on Vax/vms 7.1 even though the support matrices indicate Alpha VMS 7.3 is required. If no, does anyone know of a vax/vms compatible product that would "talk" to the HP Data Protector "server"? Thanks!

[Jan van den Ende]

Don,

>>>
ie. we have run vax/vms 7.3 programs on our vax/vms 7.1 system by copying 7.3 rtl's over, redefining the rtl,
<<<

If you already have "ruptured" your v7.1 that much, that in itself would to me be sufficient reason to move towards the supported version, i.e. v7.3

I would guess the straightforward upgrade would even be much easier than doctoring WHAT excactly you need to change, need to keep, run in parallel, etc. And all that to end up with a non-supported and not (well, you obviously did some, so: hardly) tested configuration.

There must be REALLY convincing reasons (that is, _technical_ reasons that convince _ME_ ) before I would run such an environment!

Please consider upgrading.

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Don P.]

Jan, thanks for the response. We have no plans of upgrading to VMS anything. We will be migrating to SAP within a years time. Your suggestion to upgrade to VMS 7.3 apparently would also have us upgrade our hardware - as you most obviously must have read that we are on VAXs and that the HP Data Protector is supported on AXP VMS 7.3, not VAX/VMS 7.3. Your advice aside, I am still seeking a solution, not a critique of my groups hardware and software situation.

[Andy Bustamante]

Hi Don,

This isn't what you asked, but I have used Symantec/Veritas Netbackup on Alpha VMS. The documentation states the product supports VAX VMS 5.5-2 or better. Of course a system disk restore is required before recovering your network backups.


Andy

[Don P.]

Thanks Andy. I appreciate the information. The issue I am having is related to the fact that another group has a Unix based HP Data Protector server and we have been asked if we can run a HP Data Protector client to write to their backup server. As there is no Vax/Vms 7.1 compatible/supported HP Data Protector client, I was hoping someone else in vax/vms land had been able to write to a HP Data Protector "server". So far, not so good, but thanks for trying.

[Guenther Froehlin]

Just FYI the DP VMS client was written in C using features in CRTL only available in VMS 7.3-2 and higher. That means the DP VMS client code only compiles on Alpha (and Itanium) with same or higher version.

The reason was in the port of Unix based code to VMS. And 7.3-2 had a lot of new Posix functions that came in 'handy'.

/Guenther