Greetings,
Is it acceptable to use ssh from an admin host to run ndmpcopy and vol copy commands?
It seems to work initially, but both seem to die after varying periods of time with no useful explanations in the log files. I found a KB about someone connecting to the filer and running ctrl-c thinking the console is idle, but that doesn't apply here unless an ssh command from a cron job or something has the same effect. ndmpd status and vol copy status verify that there are no copies running.
All filers are 8.1.2P4, source is a 6080, destination is a 6290, 10G networking on both.
I'm doing restore time tests of entire volumes using various methods and these 2 are part of the list. The vol copy ran for ~10 minutes out of the 466 estimated, then stopped. No errors on the command line. It does run, so all the host.equiv entries and permissions are good. I'm sure it did not do the 11TB in 10 minutes :-)
The ndmpcopy command ran for ~80 minutes and silently quit. It restored 217G, almost all are in smaller directories. The larger directories didn't show up and there are no abort messages in the logs. They just quit logging.
For the ndmpcopy I had a script do an ndmpcopy for each directory (9 total). It looked like multiple ones were running at the same time which seems OK. I was hoping to use parallel threads to speed things up.
Any ideas on the silent failures?
Thanks,
Jeff