NovaNet

From: Damian Sobieralski (dsobiera_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/29/05

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    Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:00:57 -0700 (PDT)
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

    I've got a question about backup software. I recently started a new
    position and they already bought a backup package called "NovaNet"
     
    http://www.network-backup.com/datasheets/overview.html
     
      I looked at the installation guide and notice they mentioned
    FreeBSD 4.5 but the website and userguide don't list FreeBSD at all. I
    downloaded the update to the software and the install script has a case
    to check for FreeBSD and it trys to execute an install in a directory
    fbd, but there is only a lin directory. I called Novastor and talked
    with both a sales rep and a "tech support" person. The sales person
    told me it didn't support any UNIX (which I quickly corrected him on).
    I then got transferred to tech support which was less than helpful. I'm
    not sure if the Tech support or sales person was
    less....ummm...techie...but I digress. It took about 2 minutes to
    explain that FreeBSD was not a Linux as he was spouting off the various
    Linux distributions he knew it supported. If we didn't already own
    this software this phone call would have been enough to sour me to the
    whole product.

     Anyways, a couple of questions-

    1) Can anyone confirm if NovaNet supports a native FreeBSD backup node?
    2) If no to 1, has anyone successfully used it in Linux compatability
    mode on a FreeBSD box?

     And one more question:

     Can anyone sugguest a good networked backup solutions (server and
    client nodes paradigm) that works on various OS's? The rest of our
    unit uses Vertitas but I don't know if they do FreeBSD and/or Linux. We
    seem to be the odd man out :( We have a Windows 2003 server backup
    master and I hope to have 2-3 FreeBSD client nodes.

    For what it is worth, I'm running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE. Thanks in
    advance for any assistance.

    - Damian

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