I would like to very very strongly second the second below......
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Miriam Ben-Haim wrote:
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> I would add:
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> full backup should not expire as long as other backups depending on
> it are not expired, even if its original expiration date arrived.
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> and
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> update and install clients' software with ssh rather than rsh.
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> Miriam
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> On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Fabbro, Andrew P wrote:
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> >Entertaining myself here at lunch, I present, in no particular order...
> >
> >10. Can't set exclude lists at the master, only at the client. Very silly.
> >I would like to exclude, say, /tmp or WIN386.SWP on all clients in a class
> >but I can't...instead, I have to make sure the exclude file is correct on
> >each client. What a nightmare for large environments. Some admin adds a
> >client (that I may not have access to check his setup) and doesn't set his
> >exclude list properly. Now I'm chewing tapes for nothing, or worse, not
> >backing up something he needs. What was the thinking here? Particularly
> >since the raw Class database shows an Exclude field ;)
> >
> >9. "Use any available media server" doesn't round-robin. Strange but true -
> >it works the list of media servers *alphabetically*. If you have multiple
> >media servers, then NetBackup will attempt to use all of the drives on #1,
> >then go on to #2, etc. If one of the drives in #1 becomes free, then it'll
> >use it before going back to #2. So if you have multiple media servers and
> >want to distribute the load, it's difficult to do so because your full tapes
> >will naturally accumulate in the first (alphabetically speaking) storage
> >unit.
> >
> >8. Can't restart just one stream. If a single stream fails, you have to
> >rerun the whole backup job. Blech. Why can't I restart just that one
> >stream?
> >
> >7. The X-windows backup/restore GUI doesn't have a "preview media required"
> >feature for a restore. The Java backup/restore GUI doesn't show you a list
> >of the backup images. I wish there was one that did both ;)
> >
> >6. bpinject sucks. I think bpinject is only packaged with bpvault. The
> >design is really amazingly bad. The idea is that you can type "bpinject 2"
> >and it'll dump the cap from robot 2 into the robot. However, if that robot
> >is on another machine, then you need to have root-level .rhosts access to
> >it. Oh sure, let me rewrite our site security policy so I can insert tapes
> >- har! This is a particularly bad design because you can use Netbackup's
> >vmchange to insert the tapes through NetBackup. The only reason you need
> >.rhost access is to query the robot - I'm opening my whole system up just so
> >you can query the robot!?!?
> >
> >A better solution is simple:
> >
> > - write a service on the media server that runs out of inetd that
> >reports the status of the robot. Takes
> > about 100 lines of perl.
> > - when the bpinject script needs to know what the status of the
> >robot is, it can connect to this service
> > and query the status of the robot, then use vmchange (vmadd, etc.)
> >to insert tapes.
> >
> >5. jnbSA sends the root password in the clear. Come on people, this is 2002
> >- how hard would it be to encrypt this?
> >
> >4. Frequency for hours, days, and weeks...but not months! How can I do once
> >a month? I can do every 4 weeks, but that doesn't really work because
> >there's an extra week every quarter.
> >
> >3. Stupid bug - put in a path like "/somewhere/someplace/blah ". Note the
> >blanks. Now run a coverage report. Note that this is reported as
> >"UNCOVERED". Sheesh. Also, if you put "C:" in a file list, you'll get only
> >the "Veritas" folder on C:. If you put "C:\", though, you get everything.
> >
> >2. Archive doesn't make two copies, only one. Considering that you're
> >blowing the data away from disk, I'd feel better if it was written to two
> >tapes, but NetBackup only does one. I wish this was configurable.
> >
> >1. It's still better than any other product on the market.
> >
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