Yeah- we too are having all kinds of backup related problems with the one filer we have upgraded to 5.3.5R2P1. In our case, we can't back up the machine at all.
Aaarrgh, this one really hurts. Not to mention the fact that NetApp had us upgrade to this version partially because of ECC errors we were getting. This is a brandy new F760 to boot.
I'm not looking forward to begging for the downtime needed to fix this one. It'll be like...
Me: "Uh, hi, um- we need some dowwntime one of the Filers." Them: "Why?" Me: "Ah- because we can't back it up suddenly." Them: "What!?- How long has THIS been going on?" Me: "Since we upgraded the OS last Friday." Them: "You mean that we could lose data from as far back as Friday?" Me: "Unfortunately. Yes."
... Well you all get the picture. I guess I'm just venting because not being able to backup a filer is a PRETTY BIG BUG!
Derek Kelly
On 5/2/00 at 8:10 AM, Klaus.Micheler@infineon.com (Micheler Klaus (MDCA Villach)) wrote:
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