Hi David, Let me clear some of the confusion for you....

ndmpcopy command on the filer acts like an application. It was introduced in Ontap 6.2. Hence you need to have the filer running the ndmpcopy command at Ontap 6.2 or higher. You can run the ndmpcopy command on any one of the following filers: 1. the source filer for the copy [ source has to be atleast 6.2, destination atleast 5.3.7 ] 2. destination filer for the copy [ destination has to be atleast 6.2, source atleast 5.3.7 ] 3. filer which is neither the source nor destination. [ filer has to be atleast 6.2, source and destination atleast 5.3.7 ]

Basically it makes 2 ndmp connections to the ndmp servers on the source filer and the destination filer. The source and destination must support ndmp version 3 or higher.

Now, looking at your last email, I see you have waded through the initial issues. Currently, there seems to be trouble kicking off the dump. Check if the path supplied on the ndmpcopy command line is correct, and it exists.

So from the command line, it seems like you are running the ndmpcopy command on a machine NEARSTORE. And you are copying (source) alifiler:/vol/vol0/test to (destination)pacsnas1:/vol/vol0/test.

Let me know if this is what you intended. If so, please send me the ndmpd debug logs (level 50). Thanks, Amol.

*-----Original Message----- *From: Haber, David J. [mailto:David.Haber@vtmednet.org] *Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:31 AM *To: 'toasters@mathworks.com' *Subject: Ndmpcopy * * *Thanks to everyone for their responses. I am getting closer to *a solution. *The consensus from the NetApp engineers is that I need to *upgrade the source *filer (840) to at least version 6.2.1. Others have told me *that I should be *able to run ndmpcopy from a third machine and still be able to copy the *files from the 840 to the NearStore even though the 840 is not *at 6.2.1. *This is where I'm at before the upgrade: * *NEARSTORE> ndmpcopy -sa root:dedsam9ap -da root:dedsam9ap -st *text -dt text *alifiler:/vol/vol0/test p *acsnas1:/vol/vol0/test *Ndmpcopy: Starting copy [ 21 ] ... *Ndmpcopy: alifiler: Connect: Connection Established. *Ndmpcopy: pacsnas1: Connect: Connection Established. *Ndmpcopy: alifiler: Log: DUMP: *Ndmpcopy: alifiler: Log: cannot open /vol/vol0/test. *Ndmpcopy: alifiler: Log: DUMP: *Ndmpcopy: alifiler: Log: DUMP IS ABORTED *Ndmpcopy: alifiler: Notify: dump failed *Ndmpcopy: pacsnas1: Notify: restore failed *Ndmpcopy: Transfer failed *Ndmpcopy: Fatal error. Aborting ... * *I can make a connection but for some reason I can't open the *file on the *source. Any suggestions before I upgrade would be appreciated. *Also, I ran *the same command with ndmpd debug set to 50 and have those results. If *someone out there would like to look at this maybe they can understand *what's happening better than I. E-mail me off the list and I *will send a *copy of the debug output if you're up to it. *Thanks again for everyone's help. *