NetApp 3020 NDMP backup using DSA

[mazzystr]

Hello,
I'm trying to configure NDMP backups on a NetApp 3020 cluster. Our backup system has two drives and they cannot be dedicated to the filer cluster because that would impact other system backups. DDS is not an option at this time.

I would like to use DSA to move the NDMP stream from the ip network to tape.

I have done these steps...
added one ndmp client connection license
added client for each netapp heads
created ndmp user and password on the filer
ensured that we are running ndmp v4 on the filer
added the ndmpuser and password to the client config
added the following parameters to the client configs
EXTRACT_ACL=y
UPDATE=y
UHIST=Y
DIRECT=Y
added the following to backup command parameter
nsrndmp_save -T dump -M
changed the following storage node parameter
tekncbus


When I run the savegrp command manually I get the following errors...
bash-2.05# savegrp -vvvv -l full -c ncna00a TKLC_STD_FULL_FILERS
ncna00a:/vol/vol0 level=full
12/10/08 14:48:31 savegrp: Run up to 32 clients in parallel
12/10/08 14:48:31 savegrp: ncna00arobe started
savefs -s tekncbus01 -c ncna00a -g TKLC_STD_FULL_FILERS -p -l full -R -m -v -F /vol/vol0
12/10/08 14:48:34 savegrp: ncna00arobe succeeded.
rcmd ncna00a, user ndmpbackup: `savefs -s tekncbus01 -c ncna00a -g TKLC_STD_FULL_FILERS -p -l full -R -m -v -F /vol/vol0'
nsrexec: authtype nsrexec
type: NSR client description;
pools supported: Yes;
migration supported: Yes;
browse time supported: Yes;
multiple balanced streams supported: Yes;
remote user: root;
groups: other, root, bin, sys, adm, uucp, mail, tty, lp, nuucp, daemon;
arch: sparc;
client OS type: Solaris;
CPU type: sun4u;
CPUs: 2;
kernel arch: sun4u;
machine type: workstation;
MB used: 350957;
NetWorker version: 7.1.3.Build.404;
OS: SunOS 5.9;
version: 7.1.3.Build.404;
save set: path=/vol/vol0, arg=/vol/vol0, level=full, diskno=0, max_sessions=1, stype=save ;
parallelism: 8
ncna00a:/vol/vol0 level=full, dn=0, mx=1, vers=ssbrowse, p=10
12/10/08 14:48:34 savegrp: ncna00a:/vol/vol0 started
nsrndmp_save -T dump -M -s tekncbus01 -c ncna00a -g TKLC_STD_FULL_FILERS -l full -LL -W 78 -N /vol/vol0 /vol/vol0
12/10/08 14:48:34 savegrp: ncna00a:/vol/vol0 succeeded.
* ncna00a:/vol/vol0 rcmd ncna00a, user ndmpbackup: `nsrndmp_save -T dump -M -s tekncbus01 -c ncna00a -g TKLC_STD_FULL_FILERS -l full -LL -W 78 -N /vol/vol0 /vol/vol0'
* ncna00a:/vol/vol0 nsrndmp_save: Performing backup to Non-NDMP type of device
* ncna00a:/vol/vol0 nsrndmp_save: DSA save time could not be retrieved, exiting..
12/10/08 14:48:34 savegrp: ncna00a:/vol/vol0 will retry 1 more time(s)
12/10/08 14:48:34 savegrp: ncna00a:/vol/vol0 started
nsrndmp_save -T dump -M -s tekncbus01 -c ncna00a -g TKLC_STD_FULL_FILERS -l full -LL -W 78 -N /vol/vol0 /vol/vol0
12/10/08 14:48:35 savegrp: ncna00a:/vol/vol0 succeeded.
* ncna00a:/vol/vol0 1 retry attempted
* ncna00a:/vol/vol0 rcmd ncna00a, user ndmpbackup: `nsrndmp_save -T dump -M -s tekncbus01 -c ncna00a -g TKLC_STD_FULL_FILERS -l full -LL -W 78 -N /vol/vol0 /vol/vol0'
* ncna00a:/vol/vol0 nsrndmp_save: Performing backup to Non-NDMP type of device
* ncna00a:/vol/vol0 nsrndmp_save: DSA save time could not be retrieved, exiting..
12/10/08 14:48:35 savegrp: ncna00a:/vol/vol0 will retry 0 more time(s)
12/10/08 14:48:35 savegrp: ncna00a:index started
save -s tekncbus01 -S -g TKLC_STD_FULL_FILERS -LL -f - -m tekncbus01 -V -l full -LL -W 78 -N index:992a09f3-00000004-4922f018-493ebd04-0b560000-c659283a /nsr/index/ncna00a
12/10/08 14:48:38 savegrp: ncna00a:index succeeded.
* ncna00a:index rcmd localhost, user root: `save -s tekncbus01 -S -g TKLC_STD_FULL_FILERS -LL -f - -m tekncbus01 -V -l full -LL -W 78 -N index:992a09f3-00000004-4922f018-493ebd04-0b560000-c659283a /nsr/index/ncna00a'
* ncna00a:index /nsr/index/ncna00a/db6/
* ncna00a:index /nsr/index/ncna00a/
* ncna00a:index
tekncbus01: index:ncna00a level=full, 1 KB 00:00:03 2 files
12/10/08 14:48:38 savegrp: nsrim run recently, skipping
bash-2.05#


If anyone can help me out with this I would really appreciate it.

Thanks,
/Chris

 

[605]

3 things come into my mind:
- UHIST is not mentioned in the Admin Guide. Shouldn't it read just HIST?
- Do you set "NDMP array name" - i think you must do this for a cluster
- I am not sure whether NW already supports NDMP 4. Try version 3 first.

Good luck.

 

[mazzystr]

I got her working.

It turns out that we were running networker 7.1.3 on that backup server. The nsrndmp_save variables that I am using are not supporting in 7.1.3. I upgraded to 7.2.1 and things work.

Thanks,
/Chris C