I am seeing the same thing here running FP6 and NetApp 6.4.2P4, although
I had assumed it was the fault of the filer - snap list shows that the
backup snapshot is busy for quite some time (in many cases over 24
hours, causing the backup to fail) and df shows that the filesystem
space available for /vol/vol0/.snapshot is decreasing while the backup
snapshot is being created - meaning to me that the filer is busy
creating the snapshot and the backup server is sitting there waiting
for it to finish the snapshot.

I am seeing this on a filer with 125GB in 11700000 files. Fulls run
fine, but incrementals are painful if at all successful. I've been
putting the blame on the tons of small files.

Bruce


On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:16:23 -0500
"Deterding, Troy" <TDeterding AT aegonusa DOT com> wrote:

> Is anyone else having problems backing up netapp filers via ndmp on
> 4.5? I'm seeing issues with jobs taking a very long time to start and
> also am seeing 99 errors. Usually the problems occur during
> incrementals, fulls seem to be ok for the most part. Veritas doesn't
> seem to have much for answers on the 99 part and they say that the
> delayed start issue was fixed in FP3 ( I'm at FP5).
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