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.