Backup Exec Remote Agent 11d Installation on Debian

Tags: Linux

Note: Change to root first!

1. I registered my serial numbers and downloaded the latest .tar.gz for all agents. (called BEWS_11D.7170_LINUX-UNIX-MAC-NT4_AGENTS.2.tar.gz at this time.)

2. Inside this file I found this folder: cdimg\pkgs\Linux. I zipped that up and uploaded it to a directory in the admin accounts home folder and then extracted VRTSralus.tar.gz and VRTSvxmsa.tar.gz to that folder (~/packages/backupexec/Linux on mine)

3. Install required packages: apt-get install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libstdc++5 alien

4. Add users and groups...

groupadd beoper
 adduser root beoper

5.

cd ~/packages/backupexec/Linux

6.

alien -d --script *.rpm

7.

dpkg -i *.deb

8.

cp /opt/VRTSralus/bin/VRTSralus.init  /etc/init.d/VRTSralus.init

9.

chmod a+x /etc/init.d/VRTSralus.init

10. Create the startup-entries

cd /etc/rc2.d
ln -s ../init.d/VRTSralus.init S95VRTSralus.init
cd ../rc3.d
ln -s ../init.d/VRTSralus.init S95VRTSralus.init
cd ../rc5.d
ln -s ../init.d/VRTSralus.init S95VRTSralus.init

11. Add BackupExec-Server to /etc/VRTSralus/ralus.cfg

Software\Symantec\Backup Exec For Windows\Backup  Exec\Engine\Agents\Agent Directory List 1=85.232.72.230

12. Add this to the /etc/services file:

grfs   6101/tcp  # Backup Exec Agent
ndmp  10000/tcp  # Network Data management Protocol (Veritas Backup  Exec) 

10.

/etc/init.d/VRTSralus.init start

this kb is based on a blog from Szone.berlinwall.org
interesting link: Vertias Online Support KB277508