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[Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules

2007-01-10 13:09:11
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules
From: mlv03 at healthresearch.org (Mike L. Varney)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:09:11 -0500
Sun distibutes Java separately from the Solaris OS patches - - you need to 
go to java.sun.com and download the newer JRE / JDK and install it.  It's 
actually very easy to do.

I believe what Jack's asking though is if the Java update is necessary, as 
updating Java on a server can have other impacts, especially if there's an 
Application Server on it.  As far as I know, the Java components are only 
the Admin GUI and the Backup & Restore GUI.  The rest of NetBackup is 
distubuted in binary form.

That being said, I've always kept our JREs up to date, especially on those 
mission critical servers.

-- M




"Jeff Lightner" <jlightner at water.com> 
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01/10/2007 12:44 PM

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Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules






HP when it sent notification for the OS patches also sent notification
for the need to update Java including a TZupdater tool for HP-UX.
Surprising they'd have a way to do the update and Sun who wrote Java
wouldn't.

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Forester, Jr.
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:12 PM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup and New Daylight Saving Time Rules

This isn't something I've seen discussed here in recent memory, but it's

something we're working on right now.  The new Daylight Saving Time 
rules for the US take effect this year and we're wondering if anybody 
has investigated the impact to NetBackup.  We've been testing our OS 
patches and they appear to work, but Sun brought something to our 
attention -- Java does its own DST conversion and needs to be updated. 
Veritas has assured us that NetBackup will be fine as long as we have 
the OS patches installed, but I'm curious about the bits done in Java. 
My feeling is that the Java stuff doesn't do any date/time critical 
operations and will probably be fine even if we don't update the JRE.

Any thoughts?

-- 
Jack L. Forester, Jr.
UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf
Lockheed Martin Information Technology
(304) 625-3946

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