Hi,
David:
toasters AT mathworks DOT com is a NetApp customer run
e-mail list and staff at NetApp are encouraged
to pay attention to customer issues reported
there. However, its not a replacement to logging
a support call with our CS department, but is a
great resource to share & receive information from
your peers (as you already know).
Similar to David I'd encourage all NetApp customers
to subscribe.
Curtis:
As for the pathname aborts, if the NAS device is
a NetApp filer then we believe that it is NetBackup
that is aborting the backup, since dump (our embedded
backup method) is all relative name based, so it
doesn't know the length of the full pathname.
Michael:
Are your file & directory names really long or
is your filesystem laid out with very deep directories?
Cheers,
Grant
-----Original Message-----
From: David A. Chapa [mailto:david AT datastaff DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 12:07 PM
To: W. Curtis Preston
Cc: Michael Scala; Veritas-Bu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Path length issues
There is a list devoted to NAS, mainly NetApp if anyone
is interested. Alot of NetApp engineers seem to be
present...
if you send an email to
lists AT mathworks DOT com
and in the BODY of your email
subscribe toasters
I just unsubscribed today, since I no longer work with
the NetApps at this particular client site, but it was
very helpful while I was there.
Quoting "W. Curtis Preston" <curtis AT backupcentral DOT com>:
> I'm going to guess that these are NetApps? NetApp
uses a modified dump for
>
> their NDMP backup format. I know that standard dump
has a path length of
> 1023 characters. Perhaps they haven't worked around
limitation if their
> modified dump format. This is really a question for
NetApp support (or
> whomever is the NAS vendor).
>
> Also, it's not NetBackup that's aborting the job,
AFAIK. It's the dump
> command on the NetApp side. It's barfing as soon as
it sees a file like
> that.
>
> At 11:42 AM 4/5/2001 -0400, Michael Scala wrote:
> >Has anyone encountered any issues with path length
being too long? I have
> a
> >few NDMP backups with this problem, first I get an
error stating the
> length
> >of the path (anything over 1023 characters)
immediately followed by an
> exit
> >status 6 (the backup failed to back up the requested
files). Aside from
> >locating the problem paths and shortening them
Veritas says there is no
> >workaround. What I am wondering is does the job end
as soon as the path is
> >encountered or does Netbackup know to just skip this
file and move on. I
> >have received two different answers from Veritas
support.
> >
> >Michael Scala
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