On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:21:06PM -0400, Joe Dalla wrote:
> sharing one VTL(HP Storage). The VTL has 16 Virtual drives (8 are shared 
> between the two Filers). We are running Networker 7.4.4 on a RedHat 4.0 
> Update 4(x86 32 bit)Server. This weekend I ran full backups with no 
> errors. The next days backup was an incremental and I got this one error. 
> All other backups were successful. Is this a memory issue with the 
> Networker server or the Netapp filer? I don't have access to our storage 
> servers so I can't check the netapp logs.

You'll either need them, or need to push back on the admins.  The admin
can also test dumps without Networker in the mix.

> 42617:nsrndmp_save: NDMP Service Log: DUMP: 
> creating "/vol/chem_home/../snapshot_for_backup.2161" snapshot.
> 
> 42617:nsrndmp_save: NDMP Service Log: DUMP: could not create "backup" 
> snapshot.

These are messages from your filer passed back to Networker.  If you're
completely out of space, backup creation can fail.  There's a couple of
other reasons as well.  If space is going up and down, that will make
the failure intermittent.

It should be reproducable on the filer with 'dump 0f null /filesystem'

-- 
Darren

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