Customer has a Netapp; trying to implement -snapdiff backups on several large shares. Having intermittent failures that make no sense to me. Running the backup with:
dsmc -snapdiff -optfile=blah.opt blah.opt contains: .. domain /filer/sharepath1 /filer/sharepath2 etc We can get the first backup with -snapdiff, and usually the second. Then at some point, we start getting ANS2831E Incremental by snapshot difference cannot be performed on 'volume-name' as it is not a NetApp NFS or CIFS volume. Obviously it IS a NetApp volume as we get one or more snapdiff backups before the problem starts. (And we can log in to the filer with the same credentials, and we can map a drive letter to the share.) I'm not sure whether this is a NetApp issue or a Windows/CIFS/network issue that makes -snapdiff lose its brains. Anybody seen this behavior before? Any suggestions where to look next? Thanks! W Wanda Prather | Senior Technical Specialist | wprat...@icfi.com<mailto:wprat...@icfi.com> | www.icf.com<http://www.icf.com> ICF International | 401 E. Pratt St, Suite 2214, Baltimore, MD 21202 | 410.539.1135 (o) Connect with us on social media<http://www.icfi.com/social>
