Good point Curtis!

I want to be able to "put" my own passwd and shadow file on a system j/k


My actual job related need is to be able to bpdir to locate
exclude/include files, "get" them, modify them, "put" them back.


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Curtis
Preston
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 1:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpgp is gone from 6.5 and now bpdir too !?

This documents how to use nbgp to pull info from servers.  What about
using it to push data back TO servers, like bpgp did?

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W. Curtis Preston
Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-
> bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of parsonsa
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 6:26 AM
> To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpgp is gone from 6.5 and now bpdir too !?
> 
> 
> This took all day to suss out.
> 
> If you have gdb installed on your NBU6.5 server, then this script will
> start nbgp with some suitable args and then sets a breakpoint when it
> calls it's internal function "copy_file_from_server". At this point we
> squirt in a new filename then continue execution and bingo, you can
pull
> whatever you want from any client.
> 
> Usage: scriptname <client> <src> <dest>
> 
> eg: my_bpgp.ksh my_server01 /etc/passwd /tmp/passwd_from_01
> 
> Here's the script: apart from the shebang it's all one line. Take off
the
> dev/null 2>&1 if you don't trust me on my first post and want to see
what
> it's doing. I won't be insulted :) The printf is 'typing' instructions
to
> gdb, passing in dummy args (-po DBEXT and -job 2). Unhindered, the
program
> would attempt to fetch /usr/openv/tmp/blahblah_DBEXT.2.trace_file -
nbgp
> is like bpgp except it only pulls certain files. What we do is trap
it's
> internal call to the function copy_file_from_server and clobber in our
own
> filename.
> 
> #!/bin/ksh
> printf "set write\nbreak *copy_file_from_client+0x10\nrun LOG -cl $1
-po
> DBEXT -job 2 -lfn $3\ncont\nset \$i3=\"$2\"\ncont\nq\n" | gdb
> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbgp > /dev/null 2>&1
> 

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