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Re: [Networker] BSD/OS clients and NetWorker servers 6.1.3

2003-05-05 09:13:55
Subject: Re: [Networker] BSD/OS clients and NetWorker servers 6.1.3
From: Teresa Biehler <tpbsys AT RIT DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 09:12:21 -0400
Do you have more detail about the bug?  For example, a tech doc or some
sort of detail?

Thanks.
Teresa

Hrvoje Crvelin wrote:
>
> 5.5 and prior I believe... I know I was able to force it with 5.5
> when making the tests (hm, or 5.1?).
>
> Cheers,
> Hrvoje
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Legato NetWorker discussion
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Teresa Biehler
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 2:51 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] BSD/OS clients and NetWorker servers 6.1.3
>
> Carl,
>
> Any idea how old the client needs to be to be impacted by this bug?
>
> Thanks.
> Teresa
>
> Carl Farnsworth wrote:
> >
> > There is a bug in 6.1.3 which affects older clients requiring the
> > "rsh" connection, rather than "nsrexecd" connection.  I believe
> Legato
> > has a patch available to fix this problem.
> >
> > HTH
> > Carl Farnsworth
> > DigiDyne Inc.
> >
> > On Sat, 3 May 2003 23:18:34 +0200, Koef <koef AT ATOSORIGIN DOT NL> wrote:
> >
> > >We run our Networker servers on Solaris 8, version 6.1.2. A while
> ago
> > >we upgraded to 6.1.3 and promptly all our BSD/OS (BSDI) clients
> > >failed to backup. I regret I do not have the specific error
> messages
> > >available.
> > >
> > >The BSD/OS clients run the unsupported client software from
> > >ftp://ftp.feral.com/pub/networker/bsdi. This is version 5.1. I
> > >suspect this is the problem.
> > >
> > >Fortunately it was possible to downgrade the NetWorker servers back
>
> > >to
> > 6.1.2
> > >without any index database issues. I am not so sure this will be
> > >possible with NetWorker 7.0.
> > >
> > >Is anyone backing up BSD/OS clients with Networker server 6.1.3 or
> > >7.0 succesfully?
> > >
> > >Thanks, Koef.
> > >
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