I've tested this case on Tru64 UNIX and RedHat EL3, 4, and 5 and NetBackup 
6.5.4 without seeing the problem.

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veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu wrote on 12/20/2009 04:26:02 
PM:

> John Meyers <john.meyers AT wright DOT edu> 
> Sent by: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> 
> 12/20/2009 04:26 PM
> 
> To
> 
> Len Boyle <Len.Boyle AT sas DOT com>
> 
> cc
> 
> "Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu" <Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn 
> DOT edu>
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> Subject
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> Re: [Veritas-bu] possible bug with unix uid/gid mapping with nb 6.5.4
> 
> 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
> >
> > -----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 John Meyers
> > Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 12:24 PM
> > To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > 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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