NDMP failure on a new install

[dave2345]

The server is a Solaris 10 box and the NDMP client is a Sun StorEdge 5310. NDMP has worked in the past on 2 other servers but I've moved over to a different server and have installed from scratch. I'm running Veritas Netbackup 5.1 MP7.

Here is the error from /var/log/messages:

Oct 13 09:50:51 server avrd[19199]: [ID 855563 daemon.error] fatal error on device 1 (ndmp_connect_open_and_auth), NDMP attribute lookup failed - verify attributes with set_ndmp_attr, DOWN'ing it

set_ndmp_attr  succeeds:

[root@server]/var/adm: set_ndmp_attr -verify client
Connecting to host "client" as user "admin"...
Waiting for connect notification message...
Opening session--attempting with NDMP protocol version 4...
Opening session--successful with NDMP protocol version 4
  host supports TEXT authentication
  host supports MD5 authentication
Getting MD5 challenge from host...
Logging in using MD5 method...
Host info is:
  host name "client"
  os type "StorageTek 5310 NAS"
  os version "4.21"
  host id "0"
Login was successful
Host supports LOCAL backup/restore
Host supports 3-way backup/restore

 Any ideas of what could be wrong?

Thanks.

[dave2345 · Accepted solution]

My bad. I was entering the NDMP drive parameters incorrectly. The syntax to configure an NDMP device via the tpconfig interface is:

 client:/dev/rmt/1cbn

I was entering ndmp:/dev/rmt/1cbn.

As soon as I fix this and entered the set_ndmp_attr auth information, the drive no longer DOWN'd itself on startup.

Message Edited by dave2345 on 10-13-2008 01:08 PM