Solstice Backup 5.1 Installation and Release Notes

Bug Fixes

Solstice Backup 5.1 contains several bug resolutions, including the following.

DLT7000 Blocksize Designation - the blocksize used by Backup for the DLT was 32KB. Quantum recommended a value of 128KB for DLT7000 devices. If you did not have other DLT devices configured for use with your server, you could add an environment variable that instructed the DLT7000 to use the optimal value:
# setenv NSR_DEV_BLOCK_SIZE_DLT 128
All DLT tapes labeled after the environment variable was set would use the 128KB blocksize. All previously labeled tapes continued to use the 32KB blocksize. This problem has been resolved with this release.
HSM Filename Bug - HSM had been skipping files with filenames containing more than 28 characters. This has been resolved in this release.
mmrecov Bug - The mmrecov program had been failing and giving a message indicating the volume was not in the media pool. This has been resolved in this release.
nsrindexd Bug - The nsrindexd program had been consistently core dumping after upgrading from Backup 4.2.6 to Backup 5.0.1. This has been resolved in this release.
Installation Problem Using pkgadd -R - In the previous release, when installing the SUUNWsbus1 package, using the -R option of pkgadd, the installation failed. This has been resolved in this release.
Recovery Error - In the previous release, customers had problems restoring files to the original client and to other clients. Recovery failed a few hours into the recovery of large amounts of data. (There were no recovery problems with small amounts of data.) This has been resolved in this release.
Non-privileged Users Able to Gain Privileged Access - allowed local non-privileged users to create and truncate the root privileges of arbitrary files and to obtain UID 0 (root) privileges. This has been resolved in this release.
Cannot Recall Migrated File - In the previous release, files could not be recalled if they were migrated for a second time. This has been resolved in this release.
Provide Large File Save/Recover - This release includes the resolution to save and recover large files on Solaris.