Hi All, We backup from a 3rd party product via NDMP. The past couple of days, SOME the backups have been failing on this filer with:

There are no backup contexts available in the system. Delete some of the unwanted restartable backup contexts and retry the operation. DUMP: Maximum number of allowed dumps/restores (16) in progress. NDMP_OP_ERRORCODE is 'EMAXBACKUPS' DUMP: Dump failed to initialize.

And looking at the filer:

hostname*> backup status

ID State Type Device Start Date Level Path -- ----------- ---- ------ ------------ ----- --------------- 2 RESTARTABLE dump 0 3 RESTARTABLE dump 0 4 RESTARTABLE dump 0 5 RESTARTABLE dump 0 6 RESTARTABLE dump 0 7 RESTARTABLE dump 0 8 RESTARTABLE dump 0 9 RESTARTABLE dump 0 10 RESTARTABLE dump 0 11 RESTARTABLE dump 0 12 RESTARTABLE dump 0 13 RESTARTABLE dump 0 14 RESTARTABLE dump 0 15 RESTARTABLE dump 0 16 RESTARTABLE dump 0

So I thought I had an accumulation of old backup sessions over time.

hostname*> backup terminate 2 Unable to read from registry.

There are no snapshots on the system that were created by backups right now.

hostname*> version NetApp Release 8.2.3P3 7-Mode: Tue Apr 28 14:48:22 PDT 2015

Any ideas of what I could try here? Its strange that it shows dump as the device instead of NDMP. And its strange that the Start Date and Path's are blank.

Thanks.