This confirms my suspicions.  I just upgraded the server to 7.1, now I'm
working on getting SnapImage installed, but I think there will still be
a problem of mis-matched data types, as I fuzzily remember what I was
reading when I dropped off to <yawn> sleep last night...

I can NOT use an attached drive to any of our netapps, as we don't
have a SCSI interface on any of them to use.  I'll have to do backups
via the network to the server.

Thanks for the quick response,

d


At 16:24:05, on 10.21.03:
Cracks in my tinfoil beanie allowed Matthew Huff to seep these bits into my 
brain:,
> >From my reading of NetApp and backups, you will have trouble backing up
> over NFS or CIFS any filesystem that is foreign. For example, backing up
> a CIFS or MacOS files over NFS, or Unix files over CIFS. Certain
> metadata (acls, etc) information will be lost at a miniumum or in some
> cases you won't be able to backup certain file types at all. The
> solution that NetApp promotes is using NDMP from legato to backup the
> NetApp to a locally attached tape system so that the native dump utility
> can write directly to the tape. This way there are no "filters" to the
> raw data.
>
>
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Deb [mailto:nw AT tickleme.llnl DOT gov]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 4:18 PM
> > To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> > Subject: [Networker] Value too large for defined data type
> >
> >
> > We're doing some test-backups of our Netapp servers.  One of
> > my groups has been using the Netapp for Mac OSX files of
> > various types.
> >
> > The problem I'm seeing in our backup tests to NFS mounted
> > volumes from the NAS is for .sql files and .dmg (disk image?) files.
> >
> > Here's the complaint during backup:
> >
> > /smsg-nas1/work save: cannot stat /smsg-nas1/work/OSX
> > Software/Apple/WWDC2003 10.3beta/PantherClient_disc1.dmg:
> > Value too large for defined data type
> >
> > The server is Solaris, so I can imagine that this may have
> > something to do with mis-matched data-types.  True?
> >
> > deb
> >
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