No, not a chance that it is the backup software (NDMP client).

Consider this - if your network link goes down your backup (NDMP client) is aborted. Since you have no network link there is no way the backup product can do anything in NDMP to abort or cleanup the backup running in the filer. The filer has to be able to clean up from the NDMP session socket "going away".

Since you have "failed backup processes" the NDMP session is closed on the client side. So it is OnTap that is not functioning correctly.

You might try looking for the NDMP sessions with "ndmpd status" on the filer and then kill any that are running with "ndmpd kill <sessionid>".

From: Premanshu Jain PrJain@shastanets.com To: "'mrb@netapp.com'" mrb@netapp.com, Premanshu Jain PrJain@shastanets.com Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Deleting snapshot Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 11:09:01 -0700

NDMP or Veritas Netbackup. All these snapshots were a part of failed backups prem

-----Original Message----- From: J. Bryan Kelsch [mailto:mrb@netapp.com] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 11:13 AM To: Premanshu Jain Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Deleting snapshot

This is not a function the filer, it is an error in the backup software that is not cleaning up properly.

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You have to reboot first.

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I have some snapshots created by failed backup processes and shows them

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3% ( 3%) 2% ( 2%) Sep 07 18:04 bot_sw.1 4% ( 3%) 3% ( 2%) Sep 07 16:12 hourly.0 4% ( 4%) 3% ( 3%) Sep 07 12:10 hourly.1 5% ( 4%) 3% ( 3%) Sep 07 08:10 hourly.2 5% ( 4%) 4% ( 3%) Sep 07 00:11 nightly.0 6% ( 4%) 4% ( 3%) Sep 06 20:11 hourly.3 7% ( 4%) 5% ( 3%) Sep 06 16:12 hourly.4 7% ( 4%) 5% ( 3%) Sep 06 12:10 hourly.5 8% ( 4%) 6% ( 3%) Sep 06 00:08 nightly.1 19% (15%) 17% (12%) Aug 20 21:52 snapshot_for_backup.32 (busy) 20% (15%) 17% (12%) Aug 19 22:46 snapshot_for_backup.30 (busy) 21% (15%) 19% (12%) Aug 17 04:08 snapshot_for_backup.23 (busy)

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