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failing to move LUN between volumes with NDMPCOPY

PERSEUSDK
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Hi guys,

I'm trying to move (actually copy) a LUN from one volume to another volume. However, it keeps failing as shown below.

NDCONN-NETAPP-C1> ndmpcopy -d /vol/VMFS_001/ESXI_BOOT_01 /vol/SAN_BOOT

Ndmpcopy: Starting copy [ 4 ] ...

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Notify: Connection established

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Notify: Connection established

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Connect: Authentication successful

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Connect: Authentication successful

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: DUMP: creating "/vol/VMFS_001/../snapshot_for_backup.8" snapshot.

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: DUMP: Using Partial Volume Dump of selected subtrees

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Apr 19 21:50:15 2012.

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch.

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: DUMP: Dumping /vol/VMFS_001/ESXI_BOOT_01 to NDMP connection

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: DUMP: mapping (Pass I)[regular files]

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: DUMP: Reading file names from NDMP.

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: DUMP: mapping (Pass II)[directories]

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: DUMP: estimated 1155120 KB.

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: RESTORE: Thu Apr 19 21:50:19 2012: Begin level 0 restore

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: RESTORE: Thu Apr 19 21:50:19 2012: Reading directories from the backup

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: RESTORE: Thu Apr 19 21:50:20 2012: Creating files and directories.

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: RESTORE: Warning: cannot create file on online vdisk ./ESXI_BOOT_01

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: RESTORE: Thu Apr 19 21:50:20 2012: Writing data to files.

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: RESTORE: File creation failed on online vdisk: ./ESXI_BOOT_01

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: DUMP: dumping (Pass V) [ACLs]

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: RESTORE: File creation failed on online vdisk: ./ESXI_BOOT_01_ntstreams_KLW0000/attributes

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: RESTORE: File creation failed on online vdisk: ./ESXI_BOOT_01_ntstreams_KLW0000/lunmap

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: RESTORE: File creation failed on online vdisk: ./ESXI_BOOT_01_ntstreams_KLW0000/prefix

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: RESTORE: File creation failed on online vdisk: ./ESXI_BOOT_01_ntstreams_KLW0000/suffix

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: RESTORE: File creation failed on online vdisk: ./ESXI_BOOT_01_ntstreams_KLW0000/persistent.reservations

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: RESTORE: Thu Apr 19 21:50:24 2012: Restoring NT ACLs.

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: RESTORE: RESTORE IS DONE

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: RESTORE: The destination path is /vol/SAN_BOOT/

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: DUMP: 1152885 KB

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: DUMP: DUMP IS DONE

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Log: DUMP: Deleting "/vol/VMFS_001/../snapshot_for_backup.8" snapshot.

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Notify: restore successful

Ndmpcopy: NDCONN-NETAPP-C1: Notify: dump successful

Ndmpcopy: Transfer successful [ 16 seconds ]

Ndmpcopy: Done

The destination volume has adequate space.

Any ideas?

Regards

Lars Christensen

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scottgelb
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This is odd.. can you ndmpcopy the entire volume to volume?  Does that fail?

aborzenkov
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Do you have LUN with the same name on destination volume?

scottgelb
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Good point...if the file exists then can use -f to overwrite.

PERSEUSDK
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Unfortunately no, the destination volume doesn't have a LUN with the same name.

UPDATE: It turned out, that a qtree had been created, which I didn't notice at all.

When I removed the qtree, the ndmpcopy worked as expected.

Thanks for all your answes

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