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- From: chuck@edsi.plexus.COM (Chuck Tomasi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: When will HP supply PATCHES before they are Required?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.125103.17496@edsi.plexus.COM>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 12:51:03 GMT
- References: <721721627snx@johnwuu.canb.auug.org.au> <28510397@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
- Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
- Lines: 56
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- franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC) writes:
-
- :) No offense, but "A situation like this exists with HP" followed by "I
- :)forget the precise symptoms", is a little too thin for me and not fair
- :)against HP (to put it mildly).
-
- I'll give you a precise symptom and you tell me...
-
- I have a tape drive on a 9000/375 which does backups every night. I use
- fbackup (with the PHCO_1130 patch from Feb 92) to backup various nodes
- out on the net. The directories to be backed up are NFS mounted to the
- machine with the drive such that I first cd /nfs then backup the
- directories accordingly using fbackup and a graph file.
-
- In the graph file there are several directories listed. No matter what
- order the directories are in, they get alphabetically sorted prior to
- being written to tape. In our case we have over 225,000 files to be
- backed up on seven systems. After sorting, if your first directory
- happens to be remote (note that some of the files to be backed up are
- local as well) that entire directory/system will be skipped.
-
- An example of the graph file.
-
- charlie/users
- charlie/design
- delta/parts
- adam/users
- baker/libs
-
- Where charlie:/users is NFS mounted to /nfs/charlie/users, and so on.
- We'll say "baker" is our local machine with the device.
-
- Yes, I have patched the kernels on the remote systems to avoid the
- root-security problem.
-
- In this case the directories are scanned by fbackup, then sorted
- alphabetically. "adam" will not be backed up! I was missing over
- 50,000 files for nearly six months. HP knew about the problem, did not
- tell me, and is not going to fix it for HP-UX 8.0, however they did say
- it was going to be fixed in 8.0. There are two workarounds. Either
- backup a dir in /nfs called something "less than" adam or backup a local
- directory first (this always works.) I did both and created a real
- directory "something like /nfs/aaa" and backed it up. Now adam gets
- backed up. As long as it isn't the first remote machine to be done it
- will work.
-
- I'm slightly outraged, but only because I didn't get burned. If I
- hadn't found this problem three weeks ago I don't think I would have a
- job as of yesterday. Someone lost something off my "adam" machine and
- fortuntately I have a few weeks of data backed up, but had I not been
- evaluating other backup software I might not have found it at all.
- --
- Chuck Tomasi | Old programmers never die
- chuck@edsi.plexus.COM | They just branch to a new address
- MiSTie #2356 |
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