MFCF's Legato Networker Backup Client RedHat 7.X Setup Notes

Please send any suggestions for improvement or requests for clarification to "linux@math.uwaterloo.ca".


Things you should know before the install starts:

  1. That libncurses.so.4 in installed on your system. ("/usr/i386-glibc21-linux/lib/libncurses.so.4" is in the "compat-libs" rpm package.)

RedHat 7.2

Unfortunely some of the Networker programs will only search /usr/lib for the libncurses.so.4 and libncurses.so.4.0 library so we need to:

ln -s /usr/i386-glibc21-linux/lib/libncurses.so.4* /usr/lib

And with those soft links in place it is safe to tell rpm to ignore the dependencies when installing the Legato Networker client software and man pages.

rpm --nodeps -ivh ftp://rha.uwaterloo.ca/3rdParty/Legato/6.1.1/lgtoclnt-6.1.1-1.i386.rpm
rpm --nodeps -ivh ftp://rha.uwaterloo.ca/3rdParty/Legato/6.1.1/lgtoman-6.1.1-1.i386.rpm

Now, you then need to inform the client the name of the backup host that is running a Networker server they will be using.

echo "backup.math" >> /nsr/res/servers
echo "backup.math.uwaterloo.ca" >> /nsr/res/servers
Also remember to allow "backup.math" through any firewall setups, ie add the line "-A input -s 129.97.82.10 -d 0/0 -j ACCEPT" to /etc/sysconfig/ipchains. (More informaton to follow later. Jan 17, 2002)

The Networker recover program doesn't seem to pick up on the server name, so lets setup system wide aliases for the recover command that has the -s option set:

echo "alias recover 'recover -s backup.math'" >> /etc/profile.d/recover.csh
echo "alias recover='recover -s backup.math'" >> /etc/profile.d/recover.sh
chmod a+x /etc/profile.d/recover.*

For Any New System Using the MFCF Backup Server.

You also need to mail linux@math.uwaterloo.ca, informing them who will be responsible for any backup charges resulting from backup requests from this host. Please make sure you mention the hostname and the account to be billed.