Networker

Re: [Networker] volretent in 7.4.x

2009-02-09 09:33:30
Subject: Re: [Networker] volretent in 7.4.x
From: Francis Swasey <Frank.Swasey AT UVM DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:29:37 -0500
On 2/9/09 3:28 AM, Yaron Zabary wrote:
Dag Nygren wrote:
On Sunday 08 February 2009 18:18:44 Yaron Zabary wrote:
Francis Swasey wrote:
On 2/2/09 8:39 AM, JGillTech wrote:
This is a known issue... I have been in contact with EMC regarding
this.  They recently sent me a link to an FTP site for a patch to
resolve this issue.  However, the link was not valid.  I am waiting on
a follow-up.  The same issue exists in 7.5.  Drives me crazy... all
these bugs in a major (non-beta) release.  I have discovered many new
bugs with the latest version, don't recommend upgrading.  I will keep
you posted when I receive the correct link to the patch.
Well, I guess I've finally found the way to get EMC to move... I posted
the same details I've provided to EMC over and over here and suddenly
this morning (before I had a chance to call EMC push) -- EMC emails me
that this is a known issue, LGTsc24106, and they'll get me a fix right
quick.

It's good to (possibly) finally have a fix.  It's sad that I had to "go
public" to get it.
   I got the patch today. This is a new build of nsrmmdbd.

Thanks for he info. Does i have a patch number we can use to ask for it?

My understanding is that the patch is a special build of nsrmmdbd for Solaris and I mentioned was LGTsc24106. The EMC service request number was 28002672. A week ago Glasshouse told me that EMC does not have yet a patched nsrmmdbd for Solaris (only for Windows) and so I was probably the first one to ask for this patch for Solaris.


I installed what I am told was the patch last Thursday and it has not reverted the volretent values that already exist. I am running cloning now, so I'll know tomorrow if it is at least preventing new volumes from getting messed up.

Here's the what output:

/usr/sbin/nsrmmdbd:
         Product:      NetWorker
         Release:      7.4.4.1
         Build number: 636
         Build date:   Wed Jan 28 20:15:02 PST 2009
         Build arch.:  solaris7w
         Build info:   DBG=0,OPT=-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing


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