{"id":5759,"date":"2015-12-20T14:15:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T04:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=5759"},"modified":"2015-12-20T14:17:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T04:17:02","slug":"networker-scales-el-capitan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2015\/12\/20\/networker-scales-el-capitan\/","title":{"rendered":"NetWorker Scales El Capitan"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) came out, I\u00a0upgraded my\u00a0personal desktop and laptop to El Capitan. The upgrade went pretty smoothly on both machines, but then I noticed overnight my home lab server reported backup errors for both systems.<\/p>\n

When I checked the next day I noticed that NetWorker actually\u00a0wasn’t installed any more on either\u00a0system. It seemed odd for NetWorker to be removed as part of the install, but hardly an issue. I found an installer, fired it up and to my surprise found\u00a0the operating system warning me the installer might cause\u00a0system problems if I continued.<\/p>\n

Doing what I\u00a0should have done from the start, I set up\u00a0an OS X virtual machine to test the installation\u00a0on, and it seemed to go through smoothly\u00a0until<\/em> the very end when it reported a failure and backed out of the process. That was when I started digging into some\u00a0of the changes in\u00a0El Capitan<\/a>.\u00a0Apple, it turns out, is increasing system security by locking down third party access to \/bin, \/sbin, \/usr\/bin and \/usr\/sbin. As NetWorker’s binaries on Unix systems install into \/usr\/bin and \/usr\/sbin, this\u00a0meant NetWorker was no longer allowed to be installed on the system.<\/p>\n

\"El<\/a><\/p>\n

Fast forward a bit, and as of NetWorker 8.2 SP2 Cumulative Release 2 (aka 8.2.2.2), was released a week or so ago including a relocated NetWorker installer for Mac OS X \u2013 now the binaries are\u00a0located in \/usr\/local\/bin and \/usr\/local\/sbin instead. (Same goes for NetWorker 9.) Having\u00a0run 8.2.2.2 on my home Macs for\u00a0a couple of weeks, with backup and recovery testing,\u00a0the new location works.<\/p>\n

If you’ve got Mac OS X systems being upgraded to El Capitan, be sure to download NetWorker 8.2.2.2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh, and don’t forget to fill in the 2015 NetWorker Usage Survey<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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