Veritas NetBackup & RHEL 4

[Rigler, Stephen C.]

Which version of Netbackup.  I've been able to backup FC3 machines
(which have /sys) with 5.1 with no problems and I don't recall any
issues with 4.5.

Since /sys is dynamic, it shouldn't hurt to add it to your exclude_list.

-Steve

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 09:05 -0400, Bill Matthews wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We've used Veritas NetBackup to backup our RHEL 3 systems for awhile. 
> No problems.  According to Veritas RHEL 4 is supported.
> 
> But when we try to backup a system that's RHEL 4, the backup fails
> with some permission denied errors on certain files in /sys.
> 
> I think this might have something to do with /sys being a separate
> partition in RHEL 4.  Anyone seen this problem?
> 
> 07/13/2005 10:50:13 NB-Master RHEL4-client  from client RHEL4-client:
> ERR - Cannot process sparse file /sys/bus/pci/drivers/CS5530
>                     IDE/new_id. Errno = 13: Permission denied
> 07/13/2005 10:50:13 NB-Master RHEL4-client  from client RHEL4-client:
> ERR - Cannot process sparse file
>                     /sys/bus/pci/drivers/Cypress_IDE/new_id. Errno =
> 13: Permission denied
> 07/13/2005 10:50:14 NB-Master RHEL4-client  from client RHEL4-client:
> ERR - Cannot process sparse file
>                     /sys/bus/pci/drivers/Cyrix_IDE/new_id. Errno = 13:
> Permission denied
> 07/13/2005 10:50:14 NB-Master RHEL4-client  from client RHEL4-client:
> ERR - Cannot process sparse file
>                     /sys/bus/pci/drivers/HPT34x_IDE/new_id. Errno =
> 13: Permission denied
> 07/13/2005 10:50:14 NB-Master RHEL4-client  from client RHEL4-client:
> ERR - Cannot process sparse file
>                     /sys/bus/pci/drivers/HPT366_IDE/new_id. Errno =
> 13: Permission denied
> 07/13/2005 10:50:14 NB-Master RHEL4-client  from client RHEL4-client:
> ERR - Cannot process sparse file /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ITE8212
>                     IDE/new_id. Errno = 13: Permission denied
> 07/13/2005 10:50:14 NB-Master RHEL4-client  from client RHEL4-client:
> ERR - Cannot process sparse file /sys/bus/pci/drivers/PCI_IDE/new_id.
>                     Errno = 13: Permission denied
> 07/13/2005 10:51:03 NB-Master RHEL4-client  from client RHEL4-client:
> ERR - Cannot process sparse file /sys/bus/pci/drivers/PIIX_IDE/new_id.
>                     Errno = 13: Permission denied
> 
> 
> Thanks
> BM
>