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[Veritas-bu] NDMP path length limitation?

2003-12-19 11:03:51
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NDMP path length limitation?
From: paulg AT CDCNA DOT COM (Paul Gimpelev)
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:03:51 -0500
Rudy,

        Thanks for the article.  I am, however, nowhere near 1024 characters,
may be 30 max.  This is a brand new filesystem with a few small directories
with some test data.

paulg

On Dec 19, 10:55am, Rudy Nedved wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP path length limitation?
> Veritas has a 1024 path length restriction...
>
> You should be getting a backup code 6.... Error code 99 is a summary
> error saying nothing got done...
>
> You should be doing fulls on both since the incremental may not be picking
> up the long path name....
>
> -Rudy
>
>  From http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/236221.htm:
>
> Symptom:
> Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) backup jobs exit with status 6. There
is
> an NDMP <path length> limitation of 1024 characters, so path and filename
> lengths greater than this on NDMP backups will cause an error in the bptm
log.
> Exact Error Message:
>
> Exit Status Code 6: The backup failed to back up the requested files
>
> Solution:
>
> In the bptm log an error will be shown:
>
> <32> bpfsmap: put_imgdbrec: internal error 2 inumber 5942788 <path
length>=1046
>
> This means that a file name being specified for backup is too long. There is
an
> NDMP <path length> limitation of 1024 characters, so path and filename
lengths
> greater than this on NDMP backups will cause this error.
>
>
> Paul Gimpelev wrote:
> > Configuration: NBU 4.5, MP3, EMC Celerra, code 5.18.xx latest.
> >
> > I am running into as strange problem - if I mount the same filesystem on
path
> > /export/home/home4 both full and incremental backups run fine, but if I
mount
> > it on /export/home/home4_bcv then full backups runs, but incrementa fails
with
> > status 99.  It seems to be related exclusively to the length of the
> > mountpoint/backup path.  Has anyone ran into this before?  Any good
suggestions
> > aside from shortening the path?  Veritas has not responded so far :-(
> >
> > paulg
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>-- End of excerpt from Rudy Nedved