Old hand confused please have mercy
I am an experienced sysadmin and have used Backup Exec and similar products. I installed the trial version to evaluate arconos backup, but I am completely confused.
I have arconis on a server, say SERVER1, on a small LAN. The server has 2 10-slot autoloaders installed with the proper windows drivers. The server is win2003.
I installed arconis, but I cannot understand how to proceed. I tried a backup to a disk folder, just fails with generic message, For the life of me I cannot figure out how to control my autoloaders, which seem to appear in arconis but without any individual tape slots listed.
I just want to make a backup of the server, 1 win xp workstation, and 1 linux station, onto some tapes. I have never been more confused. Can somebody toss me a bone and give me a simple 1-2-2 lesson here?'
Thanks
Failed to read data from the disk. But the docs talk about nodes, tapes, I am lost overall.
How do I create centralized vaults? How do I manipulate the tapes (erase, etc) in the autoloader? How do I designate the tapes that I want to be used for a backup, or is the whole autoloader 1 vault? What is a node? What needs to be installed on the Windows workstations to back them up from this server? What needs to be installed on the Linux machine? What si the difference when the interface starts between manage this machine and connect to a management server, assuming running from the server machine itself?
>What si the difference when the interface starts between manage this machine and connect to a management server, assuming running from the server machine itself?
On one machine many acronis services may be run. Using the console you may connect to Agent (aka MMS) (manage this machine, connect to a remote machine buttons) and AMS (connect to a management server). When connected to MMS, you can create backup plans on this machine, create and manage local vaults (the one that only this machine can back up to) . When connected to AMS ( see userguide:2.13) you can tell the AMS to use a storage node (ASN, you can't connect to ASN directly) , create a managed vault on this ASN using an autoloader which will be controlled by this ASN.
> or is the whole autoloader 1 vault?
Afaik yes.
>What is a node?
Storage node? A service that during the backup receives backed up data from agent and places it into a managed vault, be it tape loader, local or network folder.
>What needs to be installed on the Windows workstations to back them up from this server? What needs to be installed on the Linux machine?
The agent in both cases.
Now we're getting somewhere! With the autoloader, what does this mean in the docs:
A tape with backups written by the storage node cannot be read on a tape device, locally attached to a machine, the agent is installed on, because of a difference in tape format.
And this sentence:
A tape library can be locally attached to a machine the agent is installed on, but only in the case the library is considered as a single tape drive. The agent can use such device to write and read data backups, but the backup’s format differs from the format of the backups on the tapes written through the storage node