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Re: [Networker] Networker 7.3 discovered bugs
2006-03-03 11:08:07
On Mar 3, 2006, at 10:48 AM — 3/3/06, Oscar Olsson wrote:
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.
We use NDMP to back up eight Mirapoint message stores (which are semi-
plug and play email appliances). As a test, I used our production
NetWorker 7.2.1 server to do a standard NDMP recover of one of our
smallest production message stores to a message store that we use for
R&D purposes. This gave me about 45GB worth of current data on our
R&D server. I then configured the client entry for our R&D server to
do an NDMP backup to a non-NDMP device. After the backup of our R&D
server finished, I tried to recover that same data back to our R&D
server. The result was that after a few minutes, the recover failed
and it corrupted our R&D server so badly that the person who manages
that server had to reinstall the OS and reload all his system related
data to it because the server failed to reboot.
I promptly reported this issue to Legato tech support and they
informed me the problem is fixed in 7.3. Fortunately, I discovered
this issue in a test situation, so there was no harm done as a result
of this glitch to us, other than wasting some of our time.
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