Be sure to create the snapshot with sdcli, and not via ssh/rsh!
On 10/12/07, Skip Norman snorman@alexza.com wrote:
Yes, the LUN is in a qtree; however, the CIFS share was created at the volume level. This is exactly the error I receive...but does this mean that the LUN is not supposed to be in a qtree? We currently have several other systems setup in this manner without any problems.
Thanks.
-----Original Message----- From: Glenn Walker [mailto:ggwalker@mindspring.com] Sent: Thu 10/11/2007 5:43 PM To: Skip Norman; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: cannot mount snapshots
The LUN in a qtree? Any error message?
http://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=kb27000
Glenn
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Skip Norman Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 7:38 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: cannot mount snapshots
Has anyone come across snapshots that could not be mounted by snapdrive 4.2.1? I currently have a case open with support, but this is bugging the life out of me...
My current scenario is a windows 2003 sp2 server with 2 LUN's, one for a scientific application called waters empower (D:) and the other for the oracle database that is associated with it (E:). A backup script of the scientific application runs nightly and calls a script that creates a snapshot while the database is in hot backup mode. All of this seems fine and dandy until I try to mount the snapshot to backup the contents to tape.
Using sdcli I should be able to execute the following command via a script to mount the snapshot in preparation for writing it to tape: sdcli snap mount -k d -s snap0 -d y
I have done some testing in which I tried to mount these snapshots from a remote server running snapdrive 4.2.1 as well and it was also unsuccessful. I also created a separate lun in which I took some snapshots of and I was able to mount it (this eliminates a problem with snapdrive on the machine and means to me that there is something happening to the snapshots that make them unmountable.)
What can I look for to see what is wrong with my snapshots? Snap list shows them to be normal...
Any thoughts would be appreciated.