NetBackup™ NAS Administrator's Guide
- Section I. About NAS backups
- Section II. Using NAS-Data-Protection (D-NAS)
- D-NAS overview
- D-NAS Planning and Tuning
- Pre-requisites for D-NAS configuration
- Volume multi-host backup
- Configure D-NAS policy for NAS volumes
- Using accelerator
- Using Vendor Change Tracking
- Replication using D-NAS policy
- Restoring from D-NAS backups
- Troubleshooting
- Section III. Using NDMP
- Introduction to NetBackup for NDMP
- About NetBackup for NDMP
- Types of NDMP backup
- About assigning tape drives to different hosts
- Installation Notes for NetBackup for NDMP
- Configuring NDMP backup to NDMP-attached devices
- About Media and Device Management configuration
- About creating an NDMP policy
- About enabling or disabling DAR
- Configuring NDMP backup to NetBackup media servers (remote NDMP)
- Configuring NDMP DirectCopy
- Accelerator for NDMP
- Remote NDMP and disk devices
- Using the Shared Storage Option (SSO) with NetBackup for NDMP
- NAS appliance information for NDMP
- Vendor-specific information
- EMC Celerra
- NetApp
- Using NetBackup with NetApp's Data ONTAP 8.2 cluster mode
- Using NetBackup with NetApp's Data ONTAP 8.2 cluster mode
- Backup and restore procedures
- Troubleshooting
- Using NetBackup for NDMP scripts
- Introduction to NetBackup for NDMP
Snapshot job fails and the snapshot command does not recognize the volume name
Explanation:
A snapshot job fails if the volume name exceeds 15 characters.
When you create and name a volume, a prefix or a suffix is added to the volume name. If the volume name contains more than 15 characters, the addition of a prefix or suffix may make the volume name exceed the limit of 27 characters. When you run the vxassist snapshot, command, it does not recognize the lengthy snapshot volume name and the snapshot job fails.
For example, if the primary volume name is PFItest123456789vol and the suffix 00043c8aaa is added to it, the volume name exceeds the limit. The command vxassist snapshot does not recognize the name PFItest123456789vol_00043c8aaa and the snapshot job fails.
Workaround:
Veritas recommended that you limit the primary volume names to up to 15 characters to create the VxVM mirror snapshots.