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VictorCharlesEd's avatar
12 years ago

NDMP restore failed from path UNKNOWN

Is it possible to restore NDMP into a different volume on a NetApp?  For example I'm trying to do the following on our NetApp:

Backed Up: /vol/someVol/.snapshot/hourly.0/directoryRestored

Restore To: /vol/someOtherVol/directoryRestored

And during the restore job I get the following error:

NDMP restore failed from path UNKNOWN

The NetApp filer is reachable by the Netbackup server:

[user@backupServer ~]# tpautoconf -verify netappFiler
-bash: tpautoconf: command not found
[user@backupServer ~]# cd /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/
[user@backupServer bin]# ./tp
tpautoconf  tpclean     tpconfig    tpext       tpreq       tpunmount   
[user@backupServer bin]# tpautoconf -verify netappFiler
-bash: tpautoconf: command not found
[user@backupServer bin]# ./tpautoconf -verify netappFiler
Connecting to host "netappFiler" as user "nbUser"...
Waiting for connect notification message...
Opening session--attempting with NDMP protocol version 4...
Opening session--successful with NDMP protocol version 4
  host supports MD5 authentication
Getting MD5 challenge from host...
Logging in using MD5 method...
Host info is:
  host name "netappFiler"
  os type "NetApp"
  os version "Data ONTAP Release 8.0.2P3"
  host id "XXX"
Login was successful
Host supports LOCAL backup/restore
Host supports 3-way backup/restore
Opening SCSI device "mc0"...
Inquiry result is "IBM     3573-TL         B.60XXX"

Any help is appreaciated greatly, thank you!

  • Yes, it is possible to restore NDMP backup to alternate path and other volumes.

    Please post job detail shown in Activity Monitor. Also check again if you have selected policy type and source/destinatio client correctly at restore.

  • Yes, it is possible to restore NDMP backup to alternate path and other volumes.

    Please post job detail shown in Activity Monitor. Also check again if you have selected policy type and source/destinatio client correctly at restore.

  • Thank you Yasuihisa, I looked more closely at the Activity Monitor and I saw at the bottom:

    Error nbjm (pid=12100) NBU status: 800, EMM status: The host is not defined in EMM

    I changed the 'destination client' to be the FQDN and all is well now.  Thanks a million!