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 

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> Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpgp is gone from 6.5 and now bpdir too !?
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> 
> 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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