Re: [Veritas-bu] bpgp is gone from 6.5 and now bpdir too !?

Is that script something that you could share?

Jared M. Seaton
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Mylan Inc.
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304-685-1389 (Cell)

"Curtis Preston" <cpreston AT glasshouse DOT com>
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01/22/2008 01:40 PM

To	"Stump, Bob A" <Bob.A.Stump AT fnis DOT com>, VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
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Subject	Re: [Veritas-bu] bpgp is gone from 6.5 and now bpdir too !?

I completely agree, Bob. It was the only way to check and maintain exclude lists on non-Windows clients. (Windows clients have bpgetconfig/bpsetconfig.) I have a great script for using bpgp to maintain just that, actually. (You can, of course, script the backup/restore method I mentioned previously.) --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies -----Original Message----- From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Stump, Bob A Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:24 AM To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpgp is gone from 6.5 and now bpdir too !? How are we supposed to check for exclude lists? How are we going to maintain exclude lists? They've taken away our tools. We either need to have them back or be given an alternate solution. Bob Stump Fidelity Information Services ENT STORAGE MANAGEMENT - TAPE Mobile (269)832-0293 -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Whittaker [mailto:Kevin.Whittaker AT syniverse DOT com] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:17 PM To: Stump, Bob A; VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] sniff...bpgp is gone from 6.5 nope... that is gone. -----Original Message----- From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Stump, Bob A Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:56 PM To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] sniff...bpgp is gone from 6.5 Somebody please check to see if bpdir still exists in NB 6.5 -----Original Message----- From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of cpreston Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:41 PM To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] sniff...bpgp is gone from 6.5 I'm looking into whether or not this is true. If it is, it's time for an email campaign. Some see it as a security hole, and I think that's ridiculous. Anybody who is root/Administrator on a NetBackup master can push any file to any client any time they want via a backup/restore command. Removing bpgp only makes it take a few minutes instead of a few seconds. Other complaints about it over the years have been that it doesn't check for like/like. You can overwrite a directory with a file if you tell it to. For example, the following command would be VERY BAD! WRONGWAY# bpgp to client /etc/hosts /etc #DON'T DO THIS While this would be perfectly valid syntax with copy, cp, rcp, mv, etc, it is NOT proper syntax with bpgp. The command above would overwrite the /etc DIRECTORY with /etc/hosts, which, of course, would not be good for your client. (Some have even overwritten their root mount point.) Perhaps they got too many calls from people that did just that. Of course, about five lines of code could have fixed that problem. It doesn't allow you to copy a directory, but it doesn't check if what you're copying to is a directory. A simple check that the target file is or is not a directory would have sufficed. If it was a directory, it could just exit with error. But they chose instead to just pretend the command didn't exist. It's not documented; there's not even a Usage statement in the command itself, even if you do strings. If you call support and complain they tell you it's not supported. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by cpreston AT glasshouse DOT com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to abuse AT backupcentral DOT com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ______________ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. 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