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Re: [Veritas-bu] possible bug with unix uid/gid mapping with nb 6.5.4

2009-12-20 16:25:57
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] possible bug with unix uid/gid mapping with nb 6.5.4
From: John Meyers <john.meyers AT wright DOT edu>
To: Len Boyle <Len.Boyle AT sas DOT com>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:26:02 -0500
We've seen it on one our Novell SuSE linux servers and one of our
Solaris 9 servers.  We haven't really done exhaustive testing at
this point, somewhat tied up on a higher priority project.

John

On 12/20/2009 02:13 PM, Len Boyle wrote:
> John
>
> Which unix at what level(s) are you seeing this problem?
>
> Thanks len
>
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> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of John 
> Meyers
> Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 12:24 PM
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> Subject: [Veritas-bu] possible bug with unix uid/gid mapping with nb 6.5.4
>
> We're currently working on an open support issue for our NetBackup 6.5.4
> client, where files without without a valid username mapping to the
> numeric uid are not being backed up.  For example if I have files in the
> filesystem owned by uid 2356 and there's no associated user entry in the
> /etc/passwd (or possibly nis/ldap) the files are skipped from the backup
> and possibly the entire set of files on that volume as well.  Directories
> appear to make into the catalog, just not the files.
>
> Just wanted to through this out here in case anyone else may be
> experiencing the problem and be unware of it.
>
> John
>
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