On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 12:38:33AM +0100, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote:
> Oh, and NetBackup Unix GUI was a total mess, the precise as if the
> guy who made it had decided to follow the opposite of each rule of
> GUI design. Oh and the installer, written in shell, was also stupid.
The biggest problem we had with the GUI was that we couldn't see it.
Regardless of whether the display was the local machine (Solaris),
remote (Solaris or Linux), forwarded insecurely or over SSH, all we got
was a bare frame. If we were very lucky moving the mouse around
randomly would cause a brief flicker we could see.
But lo, I had a brainwave one day:
"What if I had it display to Hummingbird Exceed on Windows?"
And there was great rejoicing, as we could finally see it.
The reason we abandoned it during testing was that in two weeks of
running scheduled backups it only managed to back up one (1, singular)
filesystem, on one (1, singular) occasion. Thinking back I can see why
successful backups would be completely pointless, nay misleading,
because try as we might we couldn't restore from that single, solitary
backup.
So back to ufsdump(1m) we went, severely chastened by our experiences.
--
John Tobin
"Newsweek excluded these high performers from the list of Best High
Schools because so many of their students score well above average on
the SAT and ACT."
-- http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1011
