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Re: [Networker] adv_file event error "Failed to fetch the saveset structure..."
2009-11-11 07:16:11
On 11/10/09 6:53 PM, Matthew Huff wrote:
It may be on the ftp site, but more likely you have to open up a trouble ticket
to get the patches. And to call them patches is an generous statement. Usually
it's a tar/zip file with a bunch of binaries that you have to copy by hand to
the correct location and set the correct acl (or write a script to do so).
Is it me or does it seem that 7.4/7.5 need a lot more one-off patches than any
two releases legato has ever had? And I started using Legato 17 years ago, so
it's been a while. EMC really needs to either come up with a more frequent
release schedule (7.4.6/7.5.2 anyone) or develop a one-off patch subsystem to
help deploy these patches.
The individual hotfixes are as you say, but these point releases are
full packages, just like the packages you download from powerlink.
I can't say how things were before 7.3.2 because that's when I took over
the backup service here -- but I know there has never been a time in my
2.5 years that I have not had at least one issue open with EMC. That's
unacceptable, as far as I'm concerned. This backup/recover stuff is
critical and to have a product with this many warts is a nightmare.
Especially troubling to me is that 7.4 and 7.5 have all these problems
and instead of fixing them, EMC is off developing 7.6 -- now, it may
have some really nice features -- but if the core is still broken ...
why bother??? And how many fixes will be developed for 7.4 and 7.5 that
will have to be re-reported and re-developed for 7.6 -- it has been
happening ever since EMC started this overlapping cycle. Look at
LGTsc09318 -- I worked with EMC to figure out and fix that issue on
7.3.3 (From September 2007 to October 2008) and then had to wait for EMC
to port it to 7.3.4, 7.4.2, 7.4.3, 7.4.4 -- it's finally in 7.4.5. As
far as I know it still is not in the 7.5 code.
Frank
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