Installing and Configuring Open File Manager

It's not my intention to worry you, but I had hard times using OFM

But only to have my backups working, it did never affected the client itself.

I opened some Cases with EMC/StBernard, and I created a guide to install OFM using all possible workarounds provided in those cases, but they may useless now, as there are newer versions avaliable.

Go on and install it accepting default options. You'll have to reboot the client. Then register and do some backups to see how it goes.

Again, never has OFM affected the client itself, but sometimes backups started to fail and I had to go after a fix.

If you're still afraid of it, I can post here the guide I have. But remember, useful for my environment, I don't know about yours

OFM 9.1 is too old. Download 9.6i from Powerlink.

Also, you don't have any configurations on Networker side to use OFM. Once it's installed and running, it will act when any request for backup is started.

Your steps are fine, but I believe you'll need to reboot your client before step 4 of your list. Do step 1 of my list before reboot, it's important. Here is my list of things to do:


1) In the client side, go to Services, and disable "Open File Manager - VSS Provider Services"

2) Reboot client (it's needed to allow you to configure it)

3) Open OFM, connect to the client machine and go to System -> Proprierties:


--> General

- Change "Write Inactivity Period" to 01 second.

- Change "Sync Timeout" to 120 seconds.

- Change "Backup Inactivity Timeout" to 20 minutes.


--> Files

- Click Add and include the following items (select "Include Subdirectories"):

*:\$Extend\*
*:\Documents and Settings\ \Local Setttings\*
*:\DOCUME~1\UUUUUU~1\Local~1\*
*:\NsrCluDb\*
*:\WINDOWS\CLUSTER\*
*:\Program Files\Legato\*
*:\nsr\*
*:\networkr.cfg
*:\NsrDiskQuota.dat



<< For large disks only >>
--> Storage

- Change "Store On" from Default to the disk letter
- For disks larger than 500Gb, change "Initial Size" to 500 MB and "Maximum Size" to 16000 MB
- For other large disks, change "Initial Size" to 500 MB and "Maximum Size" to 2000 MB


4) Reboot


Hope this helps.

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your reply. Please send me your guidelines. My OFM version is 9.1. It might help me much. What I am going to do as under. Activities must be done after stoping Backup.

1. Installing controll component in a member server( Say backup server - the one where legato networker is installed)
2. Insert serial number and other required parameter.
3. Install system component in the file server (Using controll component server)
4. Insert serial number and other required parameter.
5. Next configure OFM (I do not know how to configure)

Please help.

Regards,
LinkBangla

Hi Daniel,

Thanks a lot. Please tell me how can I assign you points on this support. BTW, OFM client (File server) required a reboot after installing System component, right? or I can reboot client after configuring everything? Please clarify.

Thanks again.
LinkBangla

Hi, I have a question related to this OFM. I installed OFM 9.6i recently in all my Windows2003 servers and after that all file servers were rebooted with blue dump error.
Reboot ouccrs every save set get complete.

I contact supprot team and they had suggested that OFM will not support windows2003 and I need to go for windows VSS for open file backup .

Please confirm is this true and if not , help me to take backup for open files.

For Win2k3 you need to use VSS. OFM does not work.

Hi Hari Raman,

Thanks for your reply. To enable VSS for legato , Do I need extra license and how much disk space is required in the file server.

We are using 1 TB disk drive for file server. Please provide me more infornmation..
Sine I am new to this setup.