We encountered a relatively serious problem with our (HP-UX, NBU 6.5.2) environments this weekend.

 

Scheduled backups ran, as expected, Friday and Saturday evenings. Then, after finishing successfully, new, identical jobs requeued and ran again. And again. So forth until we shut NBU down completely.

 

I'm now in the process of installing 6.5.2A (we hadn't bothered because we hadn't encountered any known 6.5.2 bugs, except for the initial "full instead of incremental" one, and we were past that), starting things back up, and hoping that the fix for the "fulls instead of incrementals" bug will fix this as well. I'll report that when I know.

 

We have one site that's still 6.5 GA and it was NOT affected. If you're running anything more recent, you SHOULD check your systems right now. They're probably still running backups over and over. I say this because I just checked with my friends at a former employer, a major financial institution whose name I won't mention because I know their policies, and they're also affected in environments with Solaris, AIX (maybe?), and Windows masters. You are probably also affected. Stop reading this and go check. Now.