Caldera BACKUP.UNET Installation Guide

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About This Book

The BACKUP.UNET Installation Guide was written to provide you with an introduction to BACKUP.UNET installation, to provide detailed installation procedures, to help you with identifying and mitigating problems, and to provide descriptions of common file modifications. It is intended as a detailed installation guide and a complement to other BACKUP.UNET documentation.

Note: This version of BACKUP.UNET has been re-packaged in RPM format. Installing this RPM (from CDROM, for example), installs and does the basic configuration that the nbkinstall script performs. Some sections of this manual still refer to loading the product from tape and running nbkinstall. The nbkinstall script is still available if you install the "SRPM" version of BACKUP.UNET (cbu) and use the accompanying "tar" file.

This manual is intended for anyone who has managerial, administrative, or operator responsibilities associated with backing up files and directories in a networked UNIX system environment.

The BACKUP.UNET Installation Guide contains the following chapters and appendixes:

• Chapter 1, Pre-Installation Instructions, provides an overview of the information you should have available and verifications you should make before beginning the installation procedures.
  
• Chapter 2, Installing BACKUP.UNET, details the procedure for installing the BACKUP.UNET software, and provides example answers and default values where appropriate.
  
• Appendix A, Using the Automated Installation Procedure, describes how to automate the installation process by specifying a list of hosts with the installation command. The automated installation procedure is useful in a network when installing BACKUP.UNET on multiple hosts of the same architecture.
  
• Appendix B, Installation Troubleshooting, helps you to identify and resolve problems common to the installation procedure by explaining the informational and error messages generated while installing BACKUP.UNET.
  
• Appendix C, Customizing the nbkMSGS File, provides common modifications applied to the nbkMSGS file and describes the circumstances under which you might need to make these changes.
  

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References and Related Documentation

This supplement refers to other BACKUP.UNET documentation that you might find useful as background or in support of information contained herein. These documents are mentioned where their content is appropriate, and are as follows:

• Getting Started Guide. Provides an introduction to BACKUP.UNET, shows you how to set up a minimal configuration for your system, and provides fundamental procedures on backing up and restoring files, and updating the BACKUP.UNET software.
  
• Customization and Reference Guide. Tells you about the backup process in a network environment and discusses network conventions. Files, subdirectories, and directories within the BACKUP.UNET directory; shell scripts, utilities, processing escapes, and encryption specifications are also discussed.
  
• Command Reference Guide. Provides reference information describing each of the BACKUP.UNET commands and the optional arguments that you can use with them.
  
• Motif GUI User's Guide. Shows you how to use the Motif GUI to back up and restore data, recycle media storage volumes, and archive backed up information.
  
• Jukebox Supplement. Provides checklists and detailed instructions for installing and configuring tape jukeboxes to run in a BACKUP.UNET environment. These instructions include information specific to the currently supported jukebox types.
  

You can find additional information in the following documents:

• Release Notes. These notes contain additional information to make the current release of BACKUP.UNET easier to install and use.
  
• Customer Service Notes. Provide information on special situations useful to certain BACKUP.UNET customers.