On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Stan Horwitz wrote:

SH> 
SH> On Mar 3, 2006, at 2:58 AM ? 3/3/06, Oscar Olsson wrote:
SH> 
SH> > Weve been running 7.3 for a while now, with the main backup server  
SH> > running solaris, and the storage node running SLES9 (linux). These  
SH> > are the most serious bugs encountered so far:
SH> >
SH> > * The new nsrauth system, based on GSSAPI is severely broken. It  
SH> > easily breaks/times out, probably a deadlock problem. This creates  
SH> > a partly hung state which gets worse and worse until networker is  
SH> > restarted (new in 7.3 obviously)
SH> > * The cleaning uses left on the cleaning tape gets automatically  
SH> > updated when performing an inventory or when restarting networker.  
SH> > Previously, we had to run nsrjb -U to update the number of uses  
SH> > left (new in 7.3)
SH> > * nsrlic crashes when run from CLI. We suspect its an old bug which  
SH> > we have encountered before in the 7.1 series, where local NDMP  
SH> > client licenses would cause the same problems. (new/reintroduced in  
SH> > 7.3)
SH> > * CDI enabled on drives will crash the HBA driver, at least if  
SH> > youre runing the qla2xxx driver that is shippwed with SLES9 SP2 on  
SH> > the x64
SH> > platform (discovered in 7.2.1 running 32-bit binaries, remains on  
SH> > 7.3 with networker x64 binaries)
SH> >
SH> > Please contribute to this list if you have any additional findings/ 
SH> > bugs to report. As usual, it helps if more networker users reports  
SH> > these and other bugs through their support channel, so that they  
SH> > get fixed sooner or later.
SH> 
SH> Those first three items are a deal breaker for me. Based on what your  
SH> email, I am glad I decided to hold off on upgrading to 7.3.

I wish I had. But we thought we didn't have a choice.

SH> Have you reported these issues through official channels to Legato?

Yep. We have received some response, but it has been less than helpful. 
But I guess our experience with networker support shows that this should 
be expected.

SH> I would really like to upgrade to NetWorker 7.3 so I can take  
SH> advantage of the feature where you can backup and recover NDMP to non- 
SH> NDMP devices. That feature was supposed to be available in 7.2.1  
SH> (which we're using now), but tests I did of that feature showed it to  
SH> be broken so I never utilized it in production. I heard from Legato  
SH> that it is fixed with 7.3. Can someone confirm that for me from real  
SH> world experience?

Broken? In what way? It worked better than SnapImage when we were on 7.2.1 
anyway.

//Oscar

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