[Veritas-bu] Path length issues

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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