Do you also have an include list?  If you do, NetBackup will try to
traverse the entire directory structure, looking for files to
"reinclude".  See <http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/243057.htm> for
more information.

--
Deron Johnson
djohnson AT amgen DOT com

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:05:19PM +1100, Andrew Wilkin wrote:
> Hi list,
>  
> Server - NetBackup 3.2 on HPUX 10.20 and Client - NetWork Appliance unit
> with NetApp Release 5.3.2D4 OS.
>  
> I don't have the NDMP extension so I'm backing-up the system via NFS mounts
> on my backup Server. I have an exclude list that excludes the /snapshot
> directories.
>  
> The problem I have is that NetBackup seems to still traverse the /snapshot
> directories, even though they are excluded, and as a consequence, during the
> backup of the NetApp, /snapshot/hourly8 is deleted via the snapshot
> management process, but Veritas is trying to backup this directory structure
> and I get a stale NFS error (though I don't want to backup the /snapshot
> directory anyway!)
>  
> TIME SERVER/CLIENT TEXT
> 
> 01/24/02 09:51:58 sydbak sydbaka from client sydbaka: ERR - Cannot lstat64
> 
> /licups/.snapshot/hourly.8/updates/Thu17Jan2002/20021701085
> 
> 800.PARR3132N. Errno = 70: Stale NFS file handle
> 
> 01/24/02 09:51:58 sydbak sydbaka from client sydbaka: ERR - Cannot lstat64
> 
> /licups/.snapshot/hourly.8/updates/Thu17Jan2002/20021701085
> 
> 823.PARR3132S. Errno = 70: Stale NFS file handle
> 
> 01/24/02 09:51:59 sydbak sydbaka from client sydbaka: ERR - Cannot lstat64
> 
> /licups/.snapshot/hourly.8/updates/Thu17Jan2002/20021701085
> 
> 849.cPARR01116. Errno = 70: Stale NFS file handle
> 
> At the moment I'm just ignoring these errors but I'm afraid that I may
> inadvertently skip over a genuine error!
> 
> Any help  would be greatly appreciated.