The Backup Professional EVALUATION NOTES

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The evaluation will end 30 days from the day of the initial installation.

Technical support is available to assist you with any Backup Professional questions. Call (843) 626-2878 9-6 EST. M-F or via email support@unitrends.com

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Click here to start the automatic installation

Installing

During the install files are temporarily placed in the /tmp directory.

If /tmp is not of sufficient size you will be prompted for and alternate

temporary installation directory.

When the installation is complete all files in /tmp/bp will be removed.

To install for example the Solaris Server run, type.

./sol_srv

When the file ./sol_srv is run the BP distribution will be extracted into the directory /tmp. Then the install program will begin to run.

The install program will take you through the steps necessary to install the distribution. Basically, it will ask you for directory locations to place the files and license questions.

If this is a reinstall, you will be asked if you wish to overwrite certain files. You may type the interrupt character or press return to continue. Once the files have been moved to their permanent location, you will be given a chance to review the release notes.

Setup and Configure the Installation

You must now answer a few configuration questions about other file locations and default tape device setup.

Choose Database Location

This will allow you to select the location of the database files. The database for The Backup Professional may become very large, so you may wish to specify a directory on a partition with space to grow. Note that this is the database that is shipped with The Backup Professional and has nothing to do with any database you may currently have on the system.

Reports Location

The Backup Professional creates reports about a backup status, failures etc. You may specify a different location for these reports.

Administration Security

A few enhanced security features have been implemented in The Backup Professional to allow user configuration. There are currently two options, Sysadmin indicates the username of the system administrator and defaults to root. The Override Password may be used by other users to perform sensitive tasks such as restoring a backup to a different machine.

Daemon Install

The server daemon(bpserverd) is implemented through inetd(8). This section of the install will add entries to /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf for the daemon. It will check for any conflicts in these files with the IP Port used by the daemon. If your system has any daemons running outside of inetd(8), you may wish to check these entries for a conflict.

Tape Device

You must specify at least one tape device on the system. This section will allow you to enter the information about a tape drive on the system.

Database Creation

A minimal setup will be used to create the database tables that are used by The Backup Professional. If there are any errors in creating these tables, most likely The Backup Professional will not operate. In this case, call technical support for assistance.

Running your first backup

Once the Backup Professional is installed you should be able to immediately do a backup of the server to the tape drive you specified.

Step 1 should be to test your tape to ensure that it is functioning properly with BP. If you are not using the /dev/rmt/0 and are having failures you may need to tell BP to use BSD style tape motions. This is in the Admin utility under setup and settings in the [sctape] section.

Step 2 is to start the Backup utility from the menu.

Step 3 is to click on the run button. This will perform a Master backup and then verify the contents.

Online help is available from the Main Menu or from the Admin utility.