In my experience a 99 usually indicates that the file/folder/directory no longer existed at the time NDMP went to read it.
Regards, Patrick Whelan VERITAS Certified NetBackup Support Engineer for UNIX. VERITAS Certified NetBackup Support Engineer for Windows. netbac...@whelan-consulting.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of A Darren Dunham Sent: 05 May 2010 00:44 To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP backup failure. On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:54:39PM -0400, hsyashwanth wrote: > > Hello.. > We are recieving the below error message while trying to backup NDMP host. We have been backing up our SAN (Netapp) data using NDMP since an year. But this error is seen from past 3 days. > 30/04/2010 18:03:10 - begin writing > 30/04/2010 18:04:27 - Error ndmpagent(pid=4260) connection 0xec58f8 ndmp_message_process_one_failed, status = NDMP_XDR_DECODE_ERR > 30/04/2010 18:04:27 - Error ndmpagent(pid=4260) NDMP backup failed, path = /vol/mediavol/.snapshot/hourly.0/ > 30/04/2010 18:04:56 - end writing; write time: 00:01:46 NDMP backup > failure(99) Can't guarantee it, but this looks more like a problem on the NDMP host side, nto the netbackup side. You should at least look at /vol/vol0/etc/log/backup on the filer and see what it says about this backup. Anything useful? -- Darren _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu