NetBackup fails working with symlinks
Hello,
We have Veritas NetBackup as the platform to perform our backups. The datacenter where we are housing our servers are telling us that they are receiving the following error while backing up a certain directory: "NOL_UNLUGAR_UX_FILESYSTEM_01", and that the cause of this error is probably because the directory is damaged.
We are almost sure that this directory is not damaged, but its somewhat peculiar: the directory only includes symlinks, 85000+ symlinks to be more precise.
Could it be this the reason because NetBackup is failing? maybe a misconfiguration on the NetBackup server side?
This is very strange because for almost two months algo the backup was working without any problem.
Thanks in advance.
Leandro Martinez :: System administrator
Comments
broken or recursive
Did you do a health check on the links to see if any are or broken or recursive links?
Did you check to see if the necessary fileststems are mounted?
Bob Stump VERITAS - "Ain't it the truth?" Incorrigible punster -- Do not incorrige
symlinks and filesystems are fine
I did a 'find -L . -type l' on the directory with the symlinks and it didnt report any broken link; I also checked that all the filesystems were correctly mounted, and they were ok.
edit: now our datacenter says that they activated the "flash backup" option in the NetBackup, which should solve this problem.
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