Network Backup System installation under Linux and Mac OS X

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Home Features Screenshots How it works User manual Knowledge base F.A.Q. Download Installation News Update history Buy now Price list Contact For Partners Our customers Recent KB Articles Outlook - Backup of PST files Back-up to network disk (NAS) Network Backup System Administartion Backup & Anti-virus Software Database and Mail Files Backup Data Backup in Wide Area Networks Operating System Restore from Backup Copy Operating System Backup Backup of Open and Locked Files Current page "Network Backup System installation under Linux and Mac OS X"	Article reference: FS-FBS-20101006-I01 Last revision : 11 October 2010 Version : 1.0 Ferro Backup System installation under Linux and Mac OS X The article discusses how to install and run Ferro Backup System in Linux, BSD and Mac OS X using a Wine environment Introduction Ferro Backup System requires a WinAPI programmer's interface to run. WinAPI is a set of libraries enabling the application to load, launch and interract with the operating system and other programs. This Interface is not available by default in Unix-like systems. To enable Win32 to launch in systems other than Windows, install an adequate WinAPI implementation for a given operating system. Wine is an implementation of a WinAPI programmer's interface including a loader and libraries required to run Windows on Linux and other operating systems compatible with POSIX. Fig. 1 Ferro Backup System running under Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) See below for steps necessary to run FBS Server and FBS Worker in Linux, BSD and Mac OS X. 1. Wine environment installation The installation consists in downloading the appropriate installation package for a given operating system (deb, rpm, etc...) Wine and installation as per the instructions described on the project's website: www.winehq.org/download/ 2. Ferro Backup System installation Ferro Backup System installer runs under Windows and U*IX/Wine. The installation process is the same in both cases and is described on page Installing backup software 3. Internet Explorer installation (optional) FBS Server uses Internet Explorer components to display reports and to support Local Command scripts. If the installation is meant for a backup server and you want to be able to use the FBS Server components listed, you need to install Internet Explorer 6 as well. IE6 can be installed manually or using Winetricks, a Wine component. To install IE6 manually, you need to download and run the installer: Download Internet Explorer 6 SP 1 To install IE6 using Winetricks, launch the terminal and enter the following command: sh winetricks ie6 System services operation (advanced) Wine launches system services only after a user logs in to the system and launches any WinAPI application. Once all applications running under Wine have been closed, services are also stopped. To prevent system services from being stopped on closing all applications using Wine, launch the application managing Windows system services with a p parameter (persistent): wineserver -p If you want FBS Worker and FBS Server services to be launched automatically on Linux/Mac OS X startup, even without a graphic environment running, configure the system as per the instructions provided on page: Ubuntu Documentation - WineServer Known limitations List of functionalities not available in Linux and Mac: Replication to optical drives Replication to tape drives Printable version
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