The Basics of Installing SBACKUP

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By Alan Reay

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We recently got this e-mail from Perry P. and realized we needed to provide a quickie guide to installing SBACKUP. The splendid Alan Reay rose to the challenge, and we sent Perry this answer. Looks like it hit the mark: Perry wrote back and said he'd gotten everything to work just fine. So here it is. Enjoy!

Perry wrote: I have just installed my first NSBS 5 system. Pretty impressive to get intra-office e-mail up and running so fast! I am on a budget so I can't afford third-party back-up software and plan on using SBACKUP. Any recommendation in this regard?

If you are going to use SBackup, here's what you need to do.

1. Once you have installed the tape drive in the server, make sure that the proper SCSI driver is loaded. If your system is already SCSI and you are just attaching the tape drive, the SCSI driver will already be loaded.
2. Next, use nwconfig and load NWTAPE. At the console prompt :
   
   1. Type Nwconfig.
   2. Select "Driver Options."
   3. Select "Configure disk and storage device drivers."
   4. Select "Select an additional driver."
   5. Select NWTAPE.CDM. (NWTAPE is the driver SBackup uses to communicate with the tape drive.)
   6. Answer NO to "Do you want to select an additional disk driver?"
   7. ESC
   8. ESC
   9. YES, exit nwconfig.
3. All you need to do then is load the appropriate NLM's when you want to do a backup. You can leave them loaded if you want, or unload them after the backup is done. You can create a simple NCF file to load them all for you and one to unload them all. You can also use CRON to have the NCF files automatically run at a specified time.

   Here are the NLM's you need to load:

   • NWTAPE (If you add it with nwconfig, it should autoload every time the server starts)
   • SMDR
   • TSA500 (To backup the File System)
   • TSANDS (To backup NDS)
   • SMSDI
   • QMAN
   • SBSC
   • SBCON (This doesn't need to be loaded if you will be using NWBack32)

Gotchas

A few things to watch out for. When you load SMDR, you may have to give it some configuration information. When you do, make sure you give it Fully Qualified Domain Names, like CN=ADMIN.O=MYORGANIZATION.

To submit your backup/restore jobs, you can use either SBCON at the server, or NWBACK32 from a client. Some things need IPX to be bound on the server and client to work in NWBACK32.

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