I have found that my backups for several filers can take up to an hour
to start really moving data to tape.  I regularly have no data
transfered for up to 20 minutes.  Run it again and let it sit for a
while...

~JK

MSyed AT xo DOT com wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> How do backup only the snapshot directory of the Netapp using NDMP on
> Veritas Netbackup Datacenter 3.4.
> I created a class and I added the following files to backup the .snapshot
> directory:
> /.snapshot/nightly.0/<directory_name>/
> Then I started a Manual backup. It mounted the tape, positioned it and it
> was hanging for about 10 minutes after when I killed the backup.
> Then I changed the filename to:
> /vol/vol0/.snapshot/nightly.0/<directory_name>/
> It did the same.  It hung and I killed the backup.
> However, my regular NDMP backups are working fine.  How do I make my
> .snapshot backups work.
> Any help suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Mukarram Syed
> UNIX System Administrator
> XO Communications
> 
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