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Client Support Information
We can provide backup service only for those UNIX machines that participate in the University's Global UID system. User account names on the backup client must correspond to the registered BU login names for all users, and the user ID numbers must equal the index-id numbers for all users. A UNIX host can participate in the BU Global UID system by creating accounts with the new/useradm software available from Information Technology and described in the UserAdm Tools guide. WINDOWS machines must be part of the Boston University Active Directory Forest.
We ask that the client system be configured so that volatile data is segregated from static data. This allows us to configure our backups for maximum efficiency. Perhaps some filesystems need infrequent backups (i.e., they contain rarely changing data: sources, applications, image files, etc.) Also, if you have multiple systems that are configured with identical /usr or /usr/local partitions, there is no need to back up all of them.
If you are interested in using our backup service, please mail the following information to backup-request@bu.edu:
- Contacts (name, department, login, telephone number)
- Hostname(s)
- Hardware make/model
- Number and speed of CPUs
- Speed of network connection (10Mb / 100Mb / Gb)
- OS release (uname -a; and for Linux systems: cat /etc/redhat-release)
- "df" (-k) of the system
- List of partitions desired for backup
- Desired backup frequency (never,yearly,biyearly,monthly,fortnightly,weekly,daily)
Temporary root access is needed to install the client software. This
software (about 80 MB in size) is usually placed in /usr.
| Operating System | Version |
|---|---|
| AIX | 4.3.3.10*, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 |
| BU Linux | 3.0*, 4.0%, 4.5% |
| Debian Linux! | 3.0! |
| FreeBSD | 4.7*, 4.8*, 4.9* |
| HP-UX | 11.0, 11.11, 11.23 |
| IRIX | 6.5.18-6.5.21*, 6.5.22-6.5.26 |
| Mac OS X | 10.2.2*, 10.2.6*, 10.3x, 10.4 |
| RedHat Enterprise | AS/ES/WS 2.1, 3.0, 4.0 |
| RedHat Linux | 8.0*, 9.0* |
| SCO UnixWare! | 7.1.2!, 7.1.3! |
| Solaris | 7*, 8, 9, 10 |
| SuSE Linux | 8.1*, 8.2*, 9, 9.1, SLES8, SLES9, SLESz7, SLESz8 |
| Tru64 | 5.1*, 5.1a*, 5.1b, 5.1b2 |
| Windows 2000 | SP4 |
| Windows Server 2003 | SP1 Standard, Enterprise, DataCenter, Web |
| Windows XP | SP2 |
% While not officially supported by our commercial backup software, client has been tested
and backups and restores verified.
* Next major release of backup software will not support this OS version.
! Next major release of backup software will not support any version of this OS.
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