This is kinda long, so i appologize ahead of time...
We are running OnTap version 5.2.1 on a 740. When we ordered the system we got an autoloader backup (powerstor L500). Unfortuantly, Ontap can't handle the loader to meet our needs. So, as a solution, we attached the device to an NT server running BackupExec 7.2. I was thinking that in order to get a good backup of the system i could share out the .snapshot/nightly.0 as shapc$. This would give me a look at the system from the the root directory. At first it appeared that this would work fine, the CIFS SHARE command shows the snapc$ share as always being mapped to the nightly.0 directory, even after the nightly.0 is changed to nightly.1.
However, when i did a snap list command, it shows that the nightly.1 is "busy". When i do a backup, it backs up the OLD snapshot directory and when i open the directory, i confirm that it is the old data. It seems that the Netfiler remembers which directory is mapped regardless of the name. I have found that when i reboot, the share is recreated to the correct directory, but rebooting every night is not an option. I have also changed the saved nightly snapshots to 1. The system will not create a new snapshot because the old one is busy and of course, having only one nightly snapshot is not an option.
Is there any way to get the netfiler to refresh the share automatically? ---or make it stupid and not remeber that today's nightly.1 is yesterday's nightly.0?
Any input would be appreciated. --Patrick Day Sys. Admin Bayer Corporation