There are several NDMP patches in there, and one in particular that
causes multi-tape NDMP restores to fail.

I don't remember the exact patch but it was posted on this list last
week I think.

~JK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-
> admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Conner, Neil
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 12:53 PM
> To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NDMP (NetApp) restore help needed
> 
> Any messages in the syslog from the 3.4.1 master or from the filer?
What
> patch level are you at with the 3.4.1 master? - I seem to recall an
NDMP
> patch in there somewhere...  I'm also wondering about any Solaris 2.6
> patches that might have an impact.  Don't know anything about that
> particular version of Data onTap. We went from 6.4.2 to 6.4.3 with no
> problems.
> Neil
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Bryer [mailto:bryer AT sfu DOT ca]
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 11:50 AM
> To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] NDMP (NetApp) restore help needed
> 
> 
> I'm looking for help on restoring some files from one of our NetApp
> filers.
> I used to be able to restore fine but now it's having problems.  The
> OS on the F740 was upgraded to Data OnTap 6.4.2P6 which may or may not
be
> significant.
> The image itself is ~450GB in size spanning 6 AIT-2 tapes, and is
composed
> of millions
> of files.  The particular subdirectory I'm interested in is in a
directory
> with 30 000
> other subdirectories.
> 
> When I go to restore (NBU 3.4.1 on a Sol 2.6 master), it mounts the
first
> tape, sits
> there for 5 mins and then I get a time-out error and the restore
fails.
> 
> I tried to do a manual restore: manually loading the tape into a drive
> attached to the
> SUN, positioning the tape (mt -f /dev/rmt/0cbn fsf 3 ; mt -f
/dev/rmt/0cbn
> fsr 2) and
> using ufsrestore to recover the files.  That works fine for the first
> tape, but I can't
> seem to get the positioning right for the subsequent 5 tapes.  They
are
> all on the first
> fragment so I would have expected (mt -f /dev/rmt/0cbn fsf 1 ; mt -f
> /dev/rmt/0cbn fsr 2)
> to work, but it complains that the image isn't in dump format.
> 
> We also have a NBU 4.5FP7 master server, so I pulled the tapes out,
> imported them fine
> on that machine.  Started the restore and it's running along at the
> painful rate of
> 50-100K/s (this is on an AIT-3 drive).
> 
> Any thoughts/help would be appreciate, thanks.
> 
> 
> --
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> Systems Administrator                 (604) 291-4935
> Academic Computing, Simon Fraser University
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