Stan Horwitz wrote:

A few days ago, the person who manages our Mirapoint message stores (email
servers) upgraded the OS on them without giving prior notice and while
NDMP backups were running on two of our three message stores (NDMP
clients).

Now, we cannot get any NDMP backups to work on any of our four Mirapoint
NDMP clients. Does anyone know if interrupting an NDMP backup mid-stream
can prevent subsequent backups from running?

Our Legato server is version 6.1.3 on Solaris 9 with a Qualstar tape
library. We have four of the library's 12 AIT-2 tape drives allocated to
NDMP service. All the tape drives are connected to our Legato server, not
to the NDMP clients and we use SnapImage.

We reported this problem to Mirapoint tech support. They say it looks like
a Legato issue. Legato says the problem looks like a Mirapoint problem.

Help!

Stan,

Yes, I have seen problems with subsequent ndmp backups after one gets
interrupted mid-stream.  However, in my experience it only affects the
client that was interrupted, not others.  Do you get any messages that
you can share?  I'm sure you've tried this, but have you rebooted the
Legato server?  Have you tried labeling fresh tapes for the ndmp pool?

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Stan Sander - CSU Special Projects
Unix Systems/Server Administrator
(505)284-4915

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