Keep in mind that VERITAS currently has no plans to qualify any 5.3.5 release. If you are concerned about keeping NetBackup and ONTAP in a supported mode you need to be at 5.3.4 (qualified). (They are currently qualifying 5.3.4R2 per email I received from VERITAS support.
Kelly
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-----Original Message----- From: Micheler Klaus (MDCA Villach) [mailto:Klaus.Micheler@infineon.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 2:10 AM To: 'toasters@mathworks.com'; 'Kelly.Wyatt@sas.com'; 'armijo@cs.unm.edu' Subject: RE: Network Appliance Upgrade to ONTAP 5.3.4R3P2 and Backups
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 11:37:35AM -0400, Kelly Wyatt wrote:
We upgraded out filers to NetApp Release 5.3.4R3P2 this weekend. Since
then, NBU 3.2 keeps downing the tape drives on several, but not all of the filers (3 of 9). This seems to happen before, during and after backups.
Has anyone else seen this? Thanks!!
we saw this on previous versions of NBU, 3.1.*, the work around was really
lame. cron executed a script which did something like: vmoprcmd -up # for each drive.
Hi there!
We also have the same problem with this release of Ontap and Netbackup v3.2. According to Netapp the cause of this problem is a faulty Java Class (Garbage collection) which NDMP uses. This should also be the reason for the problems with Ontap 5.3.5xxx, where the problem got critical and backup stopped working.
Netapp recommended us to switch to Ontap 5.3.5R2P1, where the NDMP-BUG is (hopefully) fixed.
regards, Klaus Micheler Infineon Technologies DC