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CHAPTER 1 Server Installation
This manual is sectioned according to the steps you will need to take to install and configure Backup Professional®. Simply follow each of the steps to install the distribution. Should you encounter any problems, please contact our support department for assistance.

1.1 Contents of the distribution

Ensure that you have a complete distribution.

· Backup Professional SERVER distribution
· Backup Professional CLIENT distribution
· Backup Professional Manual (this manual)
· SCO Air-Bag® - crash recovery
· UnixWare 7 Air-Bag® - crash recovery
· PC ParaChute - crash recovery
· Sun Solar Shield - crash recovery
· Autochanger - module

1.2 Installing the distribution

The server distribution should be installed on the server machine. This is the machine that has the tape device physically attached, and where the Backup Professional database will be kept. Backup management and configuration will generally be completed from this machine.

A client machine is a machine that will have its backups written to the tape on the server machine. This includes, Windows 3.1, Win9x/ME, Windows NT/2000/XP, Novell, or other Unix machines. The installation for a client is discussed in "Client Installation" on page 31.

You should generally install the server first. Then install the clients. When you install the clients, they can automatically register with the server. Never install both the client and server on the same machine!

Once you have determined which machine, or machines, will act as the server and which will be clients, you may install the distribution. If your distribution is on a CD-ROM, you will first need to mount the CD-ROM. Refer to Table 1 on page 22 for common device names, and the command to use to mount the CD-ROM on Unix machines.
TABLE 1. Common Device Names
Architecture Tape CD-ROM Command to Mount CD-ROM Drive
DECstation, Alpha/OSF1 /dev/rmt0h /dev/rz0c mount -t cdfs -o noversion /dev/rz0c/cdrom
DG/UX Aviion /dev/rmt/0 sd(dgsc(),3)1 mount -r -t cdrom -o noversion /dev/cd0/cdrom
HP 9000 700/800 /dev/rmt/0m /dev/dsk/4s0 mount -r -t cdfs /dev/dsk/4s0 /cdromOR,mount -F cdfs -o cdcase /dev/dsk/c0txd0 /cdrom
IBM RS6000 AIX /dev/rmt0 /dev/cd0 mount -r -v cdrfs /dev/cd0 /cdrom
Linux /dev/st0 /dev/cdrom mount -r /dev/cdrom /cdrom
SCO ODT, OS5 /dev/rStp0 /dev/cd0 mount -r -f HS -o lower /dev/cd0 /cdrom
SG IRIX /dev/rmt/0 /dev/scsi/sc0d4l0 mount -r -t iso9660 -o noversion /dev/scsi/sc0d4l0 /cdrom
Solaris SPARC /dev/rmt/0 /dev/sr0 mount -r -F hsfs /dev/sr0 /cdrom
UnixWare 72 /dev/rmt/ctape1 /dev/cdrom/cdrom1 mount -f cdfs -r -o nosuid,dperm=544,nmconv=lm /dev/cdrom/cdrom1 /cdrom

1 See the DG manual Managing Mass Storage Devices for the name of the CDROM device.
2 UnixWare 7's CD Mount tool on the desktop mounts the CD with file-version information which foils the installation scripts. Use this mount command instead.

The files in the distribution are Unix Self-Extracting & Run files and TAR Archive files for Unix, and self extracting EXE(s) for Microsoft. The files on the distribution are:
TABLE 2. Distribution Archive Contents
File Description
WINDOWS/ARCHIVE/NOV3X.EXE Novell 3.x client
WINDOWS/ARCHIVE/BP_NOV.EXE Novell 4.x, 5.x and 6.x client
WINDOWS/ARCHIVE/BP_NT.EXE Microsoft NT client
WINDOWS/ARCHIVE/BP_W95.EXE Microsoft Windows 95 client
WINDOWS/ARCHIVE/BP_W98.EXE Microsoft Windows 98 client
WINDOWS/ARCHIVE/BP_W2000.EXE Microsoft Windows 2000, XP and 2003 client
UNIX/CLIENTS/MAC_CNT Macintosh OS10 client
UNIX/CLIENTS/ALP_CNT DEC Alpha OSF/1 client
UNIX/CLIENTS/DGUX_CNT Data General client
UNIX/SERVERS/HP89_SRV HP/UX 10 and above server
UNIX/CLIENTS/HP89_CNT HP/UX 10 and above client
UNIX/SERVERS/LNX2_SRV Linux Classic server (versions prior to 5/1/99)
UNIX/CLIENTS/LNX2_CNT Linux Classic client (versions prior to 5/1/99)
UNIX/SERVERS/LNXG_SRV Linux with GNU libc (Red Hat 5.x, 6.x 7.x other) server
UNIX/CLIENTS/LNXG_CNT Linux with GNU libc (Red Hat 5.x, 6.x, 7.x other) client
UNIX/CLIENTS/RS_CNT IBM RS6000 AIX 4.x,5.xclient
UNIX/SERVERS/RS_SRV IBM RS6000 AIX 4.x,5.x server
UNIX/CLIENTS/SCO[5]_CNT SCO or SCO5 Openserver client
UNIX/SERVERS/SCO[5]_SRV SCO or SCO5 Openserver server
UNIX/CLIENTS/SOL_CNT SUN Solaris client
UNIX/SERVERS/SOL_SRV SUN Solaris server
UNIX/SERVERS/SVR4_SRV Unixware 2.x, 7.x, 8.x server (System V Release 4)
UNIX/CLEINTS/SVR4_CNT Unixware 2.x, 7.x, 8.x client (System V Release 4
DOC/ Documentation
TABLE 3. Distribution Archive Contents (Add-On Modules)
File Description
UNIX/SERVERS/PCP_SRV.TAR Intel Bare Metal TAR Archive
UNIX/SERVERS/SCO_ABG.TAR SCO Unix (ODT, OS5) Bare Metal (Airbag) TAR Archive
UNIX/SERVERS/UX7_ABG.TAR SCO UnixWare 7, OpenUnix 8 Bare Metal (Airbag) TAR Archive

As more platforms are added, the previous tables will not fully reflect all available distributions. Please refer to the release notes for an up-to-date listing of the distribution.

Add-on modules, such as crash recovery may be installed, but only after the server installation has been completed. See "Installing Add-On Modules" on page 29 for more information.

1.2.1 Tape Distribution

Run the following commands to extract the installation script:
cd /tmp
tar -xvf media_name /tmp/bp/install

The media_name in the tar command will differ depending on your machine architecture and how you obtained the software. See Table 1 on page 22 for examples of some common tape device names for your architecture. After the install script has been extracted, you must extract the remainder of the installation by executing the install script using the command:

cd /tmp/bp
sh ./install

This will allow you to select the server platform to install and complete the installation.

1.2.2 CDROM Distribution

Once you have mounted the CDROM using the appropriate command from Table 1 on page 22, you can install the product. If you mounted the CDROM as shown above onto the directory /cdrom, the distribution files will be in /cdrom/bp. To install a Backup Professional server from the CD, run the commands:
cd /cdrom/bp
sh install

This will allow you to select the server platform to install and complete the installation.

Please note that at times up to two older releases are also shipped on the CDROM. These will be underneath a directory called /bp#_#. Keep in mind if you are manually browsing the CD, you need to be in the directory called /bp otherwise you will install an older version of the software.

1.2.3 FTP Distribution

The FTP distribution contains all of the file mentioned in Table 2 on page 24. It is recommended that you download the file into the /tmp directory on the machine that Backup Professional is to be installed. Once the Unix Self Extracting & Run file has been downloaded, the commands to install for example, the Solaris server distribution are:
cd /tmp
./sol_srv

The SCO Bare Metal and Intal Bare Metal distribution must be untarred first. To extract SCO Bare Metal (Air-Bag), run:

tar -xvf sco_abg.tar
/tmp/init.uairbag

To extract the Intal Bare Metal, run:

tar -xvf pcp_srv.tar
/tmp/init.iairbag

The installation will take you through the steps necessary to install the distribution. Basically, it will ask you for directory locations to place the files and license questions.

1.3 Let's Actually Install Something

Backup Professional is a licensed product. The initial license is for a 30 day demo once it has been installed. You must register the product to receive your license certificate before the 30 days. See chapter 6 "License Management" on page 90 for information on registering the product.
After agreeing with the license terms, you will need to specify the directory location where the software will be installed.
FIGURE 1. Installation Directory Screen

If this is a reinstall, you will be asked if you wish to overwrite certain files. You may type the interrupt character or press return to continue.

Once the files have been moved to their permanent location, you will be given a chance to review the release notes.

1.4 Setup and Configure the Installation

You must now answer a few configuration questions about other file locations and default tape device setup.
FIGURE 2. Administration Setup Screen

1.4.1 Choose Database Location

This allows you to select the location of the database files. The database for Backup Professional may become very large, so you may wish to specify a directory on a partition with space to grow. Note that this is the database that is shipped with Backup Professional and has nothing to do with any database you may currently have on the system.
FIGURE 3. Database Directory Screen

1.4.2 Reports Location

Backup Professional creates reports about a backup status, failures, etc. You may specify a different location for these reports.
FIGURE 4. Reports Directory Screen

1.4.3 Administration Security

A few enhanced security features have been implemented in Backup Professional to allow user configuration. There are currently two options, Sysadmin indicates the username of the system administrator and defaults to root. The Override Password may be used by other users to perform sensitive tasks such as restoring a backup to a different machine.

1.4.4 Daemon Install

The server daemon (bpserverd) is implemented through inetd(8). This section of the install will add entries to /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf for the daemon. It will check for any conflicts in these files with the IP Port used by the daemon. If your system has any daemons running outside of inetd(8), you may wish to check these entries for a conflict.

1.4.5 Tape Device

The setup allows you to configure your first and default tape drive. You will only be allowed to do this for the first tape drive on the system; any secondary tape drives can be configured once the product is fully installed.

If you are not intending to use a tape drive, accept the defaults for this section. The defaults will enter the settings for a tape drive if you have one on your system, but is not required that you have a tape drive in place.

1.4.6 Database Creation

A minimal setup will be used to create the database tables that are used by Backup Professional. If there are any errors in creating these tables, most likely Backup Professional will not operate. In this case, call technical support for assistance.

1.5 Installing Add-On Modules

Once the server has been installed, you may install any add-on modules such as SCO Bare Metal (Airbag) or Intel Bare Metal for crash recovery. If installing from a CD, select the add-on module from the main list. The add-on will be installed onto the server.

If installing from an FTP copy, you will need to get the add-on installation file onto your server. See Table 3 on page 25 for the names of the module files. First untar the add-on distribution with:

tar -xvf addon.tar

Where addon.tar is the path to the add-on module distribution filename that you downloaded. This places all files into /tmp. Run the install script /tmp/init.addon where init.addon was untarred in the previous command and addon is one of iairbag, uairbag, uairbag7, or airbag.


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