Setting up Legato to work with OnBar

• Install the product using the pkgadd command. You will need to install the 'DBMI Libraries' product as well. DBMI is the name Legato has given to the XBSA communication package that Onbar needs to communicate with Legato. When installing the product make sure you follow the installation guide that came with legato. If follow those steps then you should be able to get passed the next few steps.
• Test Legato by backing up files from the UNIX file system. Make sure they can do that before attempting Informix backups. This is very important. If they cannot perform a backup of their UNIX file system then they will not be able to perform Onbar Backups. They will have to contact the Legato Technical Support for help at that point.
• Make sure the dbmi_config script has been run. You can verify that is has been done by startting Letago (nwadmin) and click on the 'Label' button. The pools 'DBMIData' and 'DBMILogs' should be there.

• Set Legato Enviornment variables for Onbar backup. Legato has some enviornment variables which identify where its Onbar backup are to be stored. If these are not set then Legato will attempt to use default values for them.
  • NSR_LOG_VOLUME_POOL- The data pool name which the logical logs will be backed up to.
  • NSR_DATA_VOLUME_POOL- The data pool name which the dbspace backups will be sent to.
  • NSR_CLIENT- The machine name where the legato client software resides.
  • NSR_SERVER- The machine name where the legato server software resides. Generally the machine that has the media devices on it.
• Attempt an onbar backup (onbar -b -w). Check the legato GUI to see if you need to load/change any tape.
• Check the OnBar Activity Log to determine the success. If there are still problems, see also Frequently Asked Questions or Debugging OnBar.

If there are still more questions realated to legato, then the Legato Website is a good place to look for answers.

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