<gr> Veritas NetBackup is the best designed piece of software I've ever seen.
<gr> There are all these wonderful things it does.
<egon> have you been drinking?
<gr> Then, when you point out that it's not, really, doing them, Veritas support is completely dumbfounded.
<gr> Why, that SHOULD work!
<egon> ok.. you were being facetious
<gr> “Here, let me walk you through all these steps you already took, because I'm frontline support…”
<gr> At least none of them have had the gall to suggest that I might be wrong about which interface my backup traffic is traveling.
<gr> What with tcpdump showing that the master server is sending all of its control stream data down the gigabit interface…
<ogw-iii> perhaps you're wrong about which interface your backup traffic is using
<gr> … to a client that's sending all of its MASSIVE FUCKING DATA TRAFFIC down the 10/100 line.
<gr> Despite, you know, being configured to do EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE.
<egon> oh, you have to specify “flip settings”
<gr> Egon, no no.
<gr> I just forgot to unset the PFMH flag.
<gr> I'd unset the PFMO flag earlier in the week, and my SAN Media servers started working.
<egon> you need the FMH flag
<gr> But I can't seem to find that PFMH switch.
* gr trusts that you all can grasp the expansion of [Please] FM{H,O}
<egon> I assume I'm parsing it properly
* gr believes that you are.
<gr> (O for “over”.)
<egon> and no P for “please”
* gr does try to be polite.
<egon> heh
<gr> Especially with software that makes me WANT TO FUCKING KILL MY SELF.
<egon> indeed.. now I *know* you've been working with VNB
<gr> egon, and another thing!
<gr> That Java GUI client?
<egon> fuck that thing
<egon> oh
<gr> That's got to be the FASTEST responding piece of Swing-toolkit using software EVAR.
<egon> I mean FTT
<egon> it's basically not usable across a network
<gr> It runs at LIGHTNING speed. Greased, even.
<gr> egon, it's EXTRA SPECIAL FAST when it's tunneled through SSH!
* gr can't WAIT for V tech support to tell him to use it from here at home.
<gr> Can't fucking WAIT.
* gr really can't conceive of how this week could get any better.
<gr> But, you know, since I've already put in 40 hours this week, maybe it doesn't need to!
Update: The answer to my immediate problem (NBU fails to work As Advertised on a multi-homed master server where you want any client that has it to use a gigabit connection, but want clients without that to still back up) is simple! I just have to rip out all of the configuration I've done, redo it all to default to the gigabit interface, and then add static routes at the OS level to tell the server how to talk to the gigabit-deprived clients! BRILLIANT! (This is a work around that I can understand, but the Right Way to do this is for NBU to have a conception of the world that functionally includes multi-homed hosts which, at present, it does not. Moving administration of the backup master outside the piece of software doing that job is a Bad Idea from both a design and a maintenance point of view.)
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