Restore files from nfs snapvault snapshot on secondary to primary

AGREGERSEN — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:13:34 GMT

I'm using DFM to handle snapvault of our NFS volumes containing vmware virtual machines to our secondary FAS box, but I'm unable to get ndmpcopy to copy a file from a snapshot on the secondary to the primary. Keep getting a RPC error: ERROR: BAD ENV OP. Anyway, I'm still really new to Netapp, so I hope someone outthere is more capable or might suggest a different path to solve my problem.

ndmpcopy -da root:password /vol/sv_fas3240_1_aggr0_nfs1/.snapshot/2012-12-08_0812+0100_daily_vmwarexdataset_fas2240-1_sv_fas32/vmwareexdataset_fas3240-1_fas32/lab-kb-aos1/vmware.log fas3240-1:/fas3240_1_aggr0_nfs1/lab-kb-aos2/*

Ndmpcopy: Starting copy [ 13 ] ...

Ndmpcopy: fas2240-1: Notify: Connection established

Ndmpcopy: fas3240-1: Notify: Connection established

Ndmpcopy: fas2240-1: Connect: Authentication successful

Ndmpcopy: fas3240-1: Connect: Authentication successful

Ndmpcopy: fas2240-1: Log: DATA&colon; Backup terminated: backup configuration failure (2) on RPC error: ERROR: BAD ENV OP (for /vol/sv_fas3240_1_aggr0_nfs1/.snapshot/2012-12-08_0812\+0100_daily_vmwarexdataset_fas2240-1_sv_fas32/vmwareexdataset_fas3

Ndmpcopy: fas2240-1: Connection halted: HALT: Internal error!

Ndmpcopy: fas3240-1: Log: RESTORE: Read Socket received EOF.

Ndmpcopy: Notify: Transfer failed

Ndmpcopy: Done

I need to copy (restore) the vm files from a snapshot on the secondary to the primary. DFM requires flexclone on the secondary to do it through it's interface - I don't have a flexclone license for the secondary.

Re: Restore files from nfs snapvault snapshot on secondary to primary

BrendonHiggins — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:23:29 GMT

I have been having the same problem and believe "RPC error: ERROR: BAD ENV OP" should be reported as "File not found". In my case there was two problems.

1). The source for the NDMPCOPY was a snapvault destination and therefore had a qtree in it. The path needs to include the qtree name after the snapshot and before the directory name.

2). I though I needed *.* to restore the content of a directory but this is incorrect and will result in a RPC error.

Hope it helps

Bren

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