Michael, We noticed the same problem and reported it to Veritas just a few days ago. Our example was an obvious path iteration, so we identified the offending file, removed it & its snapshot to avoid continued failures & resnapped. Latest word, today, is that Veritas is submitting a RFE - Request For Enhancement - so that such a circumstance, whether accidental or malicious, will not abort the entire backup. Regards, Bob Francett BP Exploration Alaska

-----Original Message----- From: Michael Scala [mailto:mikes@about-inc.com] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 11:22 AM To: 'Toasters Subject: NDMP question

Does anyone know of any limitations of NDMP? Primarily I am looking at a path limit of 1023 characters that would cause NDMP to abort a backup job if it encountered a path greater than 1023 characters. I am using Netbackup to backup our filers via NDMP, someone mentioned that this problem may be a limitation of Ontap rather than a Netbackup limitation.

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