Use the following best practices to help ensure that you can successfully register data mover servers with the Arcserve Backup primary server:
- Install the Arcserve Backup primary server component and all prerequisite components before you install UNIX and Linux Data Mover on the target UNIX or Linux server.
To deploy UNIX and Linux Data Mover, you must install the following prerequisite components on the primary server:
- Arcserve Backup Primary Server
- Arcserve Backup Central Management Option
- (Optional) Arcserve Backup Enterprise Module
You must install and license the Enterprise Module license only to perform staging backup operations with more than two streams of backup data, multistreaming, or both. You must register one Enterprise Module license for each data mover server.
- (Optional) Arcserve Backup Tape Library Option
- (Optional) Arcserve Backup Storage Area Network (SAN) Option
You must install and license the Storage Area Network (SAN) Option and the Tape Library Option only if you are backing up data to libraries that are shared between the primary server and the data mover server.
Note: Arcserve Backup manages the licenses for the Enterprise Module, Tape Library Option, and Storage Area Network Option centrally from the primary server.
- Ensure that all Arcserve Backup services are running on the primary server.
You can verify that the services are running from the Arcserve Backup Server Admin.
Note: For information about using the Server Admin Manager, see the Administration Guide.
- Ensure that the Arcserve Backup primary server and the data mover servers can communicate with each other. You can verify that the servers can communicate using the ping host name command.
Solutions
- If the primary server cannot ping the data mover server, ensure that the servers are properly connected to the network. Then, add the host name and IP address of the data mover servers to the hosts file on the primary server.
The hosts file is located in the following directory on the primary server:
%Windows%/system32/drivers/etc/hosts
- If the data mover servers cannot ping the primary server, ensure that the servers are properly connected to the network. Then, add the host name and IP address of the primary server to the hosts file located on the data mover servers.
The hosts file is located on in the following directory on data mover servers:
/etc/hosts
Note: If there is a firewall configured on the target data mover server, add Arcserve Backup to the firewall exceptions list on the target data mover server.
- Ensure that you apply all required operating system updates and patches to the primary server and the data mover servers.
Note: For more information, see the Readme file.
- Ensure that you allow a sufficient amount of free disk space on the data mover servers to support the installation of UNIX and Linux Data Mover and the agents running on the servers.
- Ensure that the /tmp directory on the data mover servers contains permission 0777 and at least 2 MB of free disk space. We recommend this approach because the Arcserve Backup uses the /tmp directory (before and after installation) to store log files and other miscellaneous temporary files.
- To protect data that resides on data mover servers, you should install at least one of the following file system agents on the data mover server while you install UNIX and Linux Data Mover:
- Client Agent for Linux
- Client Agent for UNIX
- Agent for Oracle on UNIX
- Agent for Oracle on Linux
Note: Setup installs the Client Agent for UNIX or the Client Agent for Linux when you install UNIX and Linux Data Mover. You can install more agents after you install UNIX and Linux Data Mover.
