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Rwigg
Level 3
15 years ago

NDMP Backups failing

Greetings, We recently moved two of our NetApp filers to a new datacenter and now when I try to backup some of the larger volumes I am receiving the error NDMP backup failure(99).  The detailed s...
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  • MattS's avatar
    MattS
    15 years ago
    That does sound tape drive related... maybe try performing a large/long standard backup on that drive to see if any errors pop up?  Is it SAN connected? If so you might want to check for errors on your fiber switch ports.
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MattS
Level 6
15 years ago
Rwigg,

Did you get this issue resolved?  I was having this same issue with the same errors in the logs.

After much troubleshooting i found that i was using the e0m interface on the NetApp for netbackup media/master communication.  I went over this with the SAN guys and they weren't sure why that interface had a DNS entry with the NetApp's hostname.  It should have been something like hostname-e0m.

So i edited the host files on the master/media to use the IP address of the vif-master interface instead and it seems to have resolved the issue.

Let me know if this works for you.

Matt