OSSV Transfer Error Message: An invalid path was specified. A possible attempt to update an empty directory. Request To Backup from invalid Snapshot: 'sv_daily .0\'

vincent_bolay — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:02:08 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to setup OSSV on 2 Windows 2003 servers and I get on both servers the following result during a scheduled backup:

C:\Program Files\NetApp\snapvault\bin>snapvault status -l

Snapvault primary is ON

Source: GVAM1BFILE02:E:\

Destination: gvam1bnas03:/vol/ossv_win_vault/gvam1bfile02_E

Status: Idle

State: Source

Lag: 00:36:09

Mirror Timestamp: -

Base Snapshot: -

Current Transfer Type: -

Contents: -

Last Transfer Type: -

Last Transfer From: -

Last Transfer Size: 755 MB

Last Transfer Duration: 00:06:10

Total files to transfer: 1

Total files transferred: 0

Current File Size: -

Current File Progress: -

Current File Name: -

Transfer Error ID: 3010

Transfer Error Message: An invalid path was specified. A possible attempt

to update an empty directory. Request To Backup from invalid Snapshot: 'sv_daily

.0\'

This is the result on the secondary:

snapvault status -l /vol/ossv_win_vault/gvam1bfile02_E

Snapvault is ON.

Source: GVAM1BFILE02:E:\

Destination: gvam1bnas03:/vol/ossv_win_vault/gvam1bfile02_E

Status: Idle

Progress: -

State: Snapvaulted

Lag: 01:23:55

Mirror Timestamp: Fri May 24 08:28:55 CEST 2013

Base Snapshot: gvam1bnas03(1790992632)_ossv_win_vault-base.16

Current Transfer Type: Update

Current Transfer Error: source is not a valid name or qtree path

Contents: Replica

Last Transfer Type: Update

Last Transfer Size: 813352 KB

Last Transfer Duration: 00:06:11

Last Transfer From: GVAM1BFILE02:E:\

This is the schedule I have on the secondary:

xfer ossv_win_vault sv_daily 6@23@mon-sat preserve=default,warn=0

xfer ossv_win_vault sv_weekly 52@23@sun preserve=default,warn=0

These are the snapshots I have:

Volume ossv_win_vault

working...

%/used %/total date name

---------- ---------- ------------ --------

0% ( 0%) 0% ( 0%) May 24 09:05 sv_daily.0

0% ( 0%) 0% ( 0%) May 24 09:05 gvam1bnas03(1790992632)_ossv_win_vault-base.16 (busy,snapvault)

0% ( 0%) 0% ( 0%) May 24 08:37 gvam1bnas04(1790988856)_ossv_win_vault.10 (snapmirror)

0% ( 0%) 0% ( 0%) May 24 08:35 gvam1bnas03(1790992632)_ossv_win_vault-base.15 (snapvault)

0% ( 0%) 0% ( 0%) May 23 23:17 sv_daily.1

6% ( 6%) 4% ( 4%) May 23 14:05 sv_daily.2

6% ( 0%) 4% ( 0%) May 23 13:05 sv_daily.3

6% ( 0%) 4% ( 0%) May 23 12:05 sv_daily.4

It works fine if I start a manual backup with :

snapvault update -S GVAM1BFILE02:E:\ gvam1bnas03:/vol/ossv_win_vault/gvam1bfile02_E

So, I don't understand why it works in this case and not during scheduled backup.

Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks

Vincent

Re: OSSV Transfer Error Message: An invalid path was specified. A possible attempt to update an empty directory. Request To Backup from invalid Snapshot: 'sv_daily .0\'

pdg — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:42:52 GMT

Hi Vincent, did you ever get this issue resolved as I'm having the same issue. Please let me know. Thank You.

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