Legato Networker and the c:\temp saga

We came across a strange issue recently with Legato Networker where if you initiated a backup from the Legato server itself, version 7.3 SP4, then it would back everything up except c:\temp

When we looked from the client end (, and tried a restore, we could see c:\temp but the restore contents was empty. No directives in place and no nsr.dir exclusions in place.

Went through google but nothing obvious came to light. was not a DFS mount point, NTFS security was fine, and strangely enough when we initiated a backup from the client side, then c:\temp was backed up....

After some hours searching, we applied some lateral thinking and checking several other boxes on differnet backup servers.

All the same, c:\temp was always empty.....

At which point we got EMC on the phone, the transcript is below.. All I can say is don't keep anything in c:\temp and expect to be able to restore it ! It's a known bug with no fix...

I hope google may catalogue this post so other users may find it easier to diagnose this use quicker than we did !

S.

Details
System: "Welcome to the EMC Customer Support Center."
System: "We will be with you in just a moment."
Session Started
us@us.com: "folder excluded from backups"
System: "The Service Request number for your inquiry is 3254xxx."
EMC :"Thank you for contacting EMC Customer Service. My name is "
us@us.com: "Hi "
EMC :"Hi"
us@us.com: "just a quick question about a backup of a windows client"
EMC :"sure"
us@us.com: "I can see our backups are miising c:\temp"
EMC :"ok"
us@us.com: "this appears to be intentional as all the clients are the same"
EMC :"what is the saveset mentioned"
us@us.com: "this is not done by a directive or a nsr.dir exclusion list"
us@us.com: "saveset is C:\"
EMC :"ok"
us@us.com: "client is set for filesystems = all"
EMC :"have you enabled any directive to skip"
us@us.com: "no the orginal directive was set so skip *.dbf"
EMC :"ok"
us@us.com: "I have now set an empty directive so nothing should be excluded"
EMC :"yes"
us@us.com: "but C:\temp is still missed"
us@us.com: "what causes this?"
EMC :"ok"
us@us.com: "can it be turned off>"
EMC :"one moment"
us@us.com: "thanks"
EMC :"have you tried by giving saveset C:\temp"
us@us.com: "yes, this was what i was doing in testing"
EMC :"or just open networker user"
EMC :"and than click on backup it will list all files and folders"
EMC :"whether temp folder is visible there"
EMC :"if it is not visible it will not backup"
us@us.com: "that is the really strange thing. a client initiated backup will work okay. but when you do a server initiated backup it fails AND it removes the CFI for the earlier backup"
EMC :"ok"
EMC :"normally it will skip temp folder"
us@us.com: "yes"
EMC :"have you tried client initiated backup"
EMC :"and it has backup temp folder"
us@us.com: "yes"
EMC :"ok"
us@us.com: "see comment at 14:28:08"
EMC :"when you initiate backup from server that will not take tmep folder it will skip"
us@us.com: "that's right"
EMC :"its know issue"
us@us.com: "okay"
us@us.com: "so is it missed because there is a problem, or because EMC want it to work that way??"
us@us.com: "is there a fix?"
EMC :"there is no fix for this as of now"
us@us.com: "okay. at least I know my config is good."
us@us.com: "thanks for your help"
us@us.com: "have a good day"
EMC :"yes its good"
EMC :"welcome"
EMC :"Thanks again for contacting EMC Support."
us@us.com: "thank you"
us@us.com: "bye"
Session Ended

6 LED Webcam drivers ... Finally !!

Ah the 6 LED Webcam that I bought off ebay.. fantastic 1.3 M and really good but of course, I lost the driver CD within minutes and when I rebuilt my PC, Vista detected it as totally the wrong thing and I was left without a webcam.

With no identifying marks, I was lucky with google's help to discuver this fantastic link... It has the links tot the required drivers :-) YEE HAAH.. Downloaded, installed and ready to go .. 

I posted the links here as well

http://www.azzx.org/drivers/vimicro-usb-webcam-driver/

http://www.azzx.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/vimicro-pc-camera-301x.zip

Vista : Enough is enough..

Right, For the Love of God.. Can I do anything without being told I need permission to do it..

Vista is being blow away and XP being put back on.

Microsoft, I F*cking hate you releasing this OS.. Just bite the bullet, admit it's a big a disaster as Windows ME and refund everyone who bought this pile of poo.

Egypt

I am off to Egypt on Sunday...

Adieu..

VISTA...Could you get any worse ?

Let me just say that I am an MCP in Exchange 2003, I am employed by a very well know 2 letter burger sauce company as a 3rd line level engineer, and I've a good knowledge of Microsoft OS systems and not just some plank.

F*ck me, could things get any worse.. can I delete something from c:\program files ? Can I fick ?

Find was SO nice in XP, easy and simple.. For the love of god, what is Vista's effort about ? It relies on indexing for speed, and winges when something isn't.. I really don't mind waiting a bit longer to get the results i want, not an avalanche of false positives from like temp files. outlook sessions, network drives.. i want to look on the C drive for a file called vistaispony.txt, any easy way to do that ? is there furk ~? more to the point, can i save a text file called vistaispony.txt in any remotely useful location, can I fonk ?

I cannot stand Vista.. I hate it so much I am going to write another blog soon on which feature annoys me more.. will be pushed to beat the pony search function though.

i copyright the use of the vowel U in any 4 letter work with the other letters FCK that descibe MS products :-) Yeah, do I fick ;-)

S.

How much do I still hate Vista...

It's not grown on me in the slightest.

My latest pet hate to add to the endless amount. Try to recursively delete a directory with the GUI.

So you select your directory, right click Delete and get this

You click continue... You get the next permissions box where you click continue

Then without fail, it comes back to Access Denied.. And the process repeats.

I ABSOLUTELY CANNOT STAND VISTA... It's the worst operating system I have ever used bar Windows ME of course...

I can't be the only one who finds it impossible to delete stuff without having to resort to what I tend to now which is fall back to a CMD box and use del /r /s... 

Oh and let us not mention trying to copy something from a network drive to like c:\program files\.. .Oh no.. you can drag to about 1 or 2 places and then you have to move it from there.

Oh XP.. I love you...

S.

SD-270EKB2 Region Code Unlock

OK, I managed to finally find the right page for unlocking a SD-270EKB2 DVD player.. It's so simple... This is not before I'd burnt a CD with supposed upgraded firmware, tried some various combinations all to no avail.

The route is simply this :

The Hack Procedure:
- Power On
- Open Tray
- Press 9879 0 (0 stands for Multiregion, you may press buttons 1 to 6 to choose a specific region)
- A Message appears stating that "The Reg.No was changed to: [insert whatever region (0-6) you selected here]"