[SATLUG] Quick question about AIX and Windows interaction

[Channing]

koflanagan at satx.rr.com wrote:
> Just to give you guys a run down, we're using Tivoli for our Houston 
> site and ArcServ for our SA site.  Problem is we are trying to phase 
> away from Tivoli and move things off to ArcServ.  We have two AIX 5.1 
> systems that are clustered and they run various scripts to do 
> hotbackups for our Oracle databases.  Right now the scripts push the 
> hotbackups straight to tape.  ArcServ on the other hand only pulls from 
> the server, the agents or clients can't push. (or that's what CA said)  
> My idea is to setup an NFS server on our W2k3 so that the scripts can 
> push to the server and ArcServ can backup the data locally from there.  
> Do you guys know of any light weight free software for this?  I would 
> use a linux box, but then we would be pushing to the linux box, then 
> pulling from the linux box to the w2k3 server. The switches at this 
> site aren't the greatest and aren't spread out right. (another project) 
> So when we do backups at night the network slows down ALOT.  So the 
> less trafic I take
>  up the better. Any ideas?  I've thought about setting up samba on the 
> two aix boxes, but we don't have enough disk space available to push 
> the hotbackups to.  We are working with EMC to maybe add more disk 
> space or get a different unit since we are using Symetrix and those are 
> hard for us to maintaine. (not a spelling B champ).
>
>
>   
You could share a directory on the w2k3 server that was mountable by 
your AIX servers and drop things there.  Granted SMB is not the easiest 
protocol on the network. :(

HTH,
Channing

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