I am experiencing a problem with dump since upgrading the filers to 5.2.2. I contacted Netapp for help as you can see below. Netapp is still working on this problem and said no one has reported anything like this and this is first of its kind. Netapp cannot duplicate the problem because they don't have autoloader inhouse. I was hoping perhap you can contact some of your customers who has a simular setup as I do here. I have a DLT4700 connected to a filer. I dump the filer to tapes and use restore to restore or list the content of the tapes. Since the upgrade I notice on the dump log the inode from a next tape is not steadily increase but start from 0. I didn't expect the dump could be bad because what have written to tape's number increment steadily. I would greatly appreciated if you can look into this. Thank you in advance for any help you can.
How many tapes do you expect the backup set to use? If it's more than one have you checked that the drive is actually ejecting and loading a new tape? After the second tape? What I'm asking is, 'Is the next backup overwriting the first?'. Are you backing up multiple sets in sequence? What filesystem does restore tv say is on the tape?
Do the file names match what you expect to see and only the inode numbers are strange?
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