Summary
Running an incremental NDMP backup without first establishing a base causes the NDMP backup job to fail.
Symptoms
While attempting to run an NDMP backup job of a volume from a NetApp filer, you may see the following error messages after the tape has been mounted:
SNBTMM5462O Attempting mount for node(DEVICESERVER) drive(DRIVENAME) volser(VOLSER)
SNBTMM5461O Node(DEVICESERVER) drive(DRIVENAME) volser(VOLSER) partition(1) mount rc=(0)
SNBNCX6025J NDMP server entry: Type(NDMP_LOG_NORMAL), ID(0), Text(DUMP: creating "/vol/volumename/../snapshot_for_backup.1060" snapshot. )
SNBNCX6025J NDMP server entry: Type(NDMP_LOG_NORMAL), ID(0), Text(DUMP: /etc/dumpdates does not exist, try performing a level 0 dump. )
SNBNCX6025J NDMP server entry: Type(NDMP_LOG_NORMAL), ID(0), Text(DUMP: Dump failed to initialize. )
SNBNCX6025J NDMP server entry: Type(NDMP_LOG_NORMAL), ID(0), Text(DUMP: DUMP IS ABORTED )
SNBNCX6025J NDMP server entry: Type(NDMP_LOG_NORMAL), ID(0), Text(DUMP: Deleting "/vol/volumename/../snapshot_for_backup.1060" snapshot. )
SNBNCX6025J NDMP server entry: Type(NDMP_LOG_NORMAL), ID(0), Text(Dump aborted. )
SNBNCX3069E TID(7): FH processing disabled. Reason(Task cancelled)
SNBNCX3069E TID(7): FH processing aborted. Reason(FH error indicator set)
SNBEHD3053E 1732: *** File browser on node <ndmpclientnode> returned error 16 **
Resolution
This error message displays when attempting to run an incremental backup without first running a base backup of that same volume. The message "try performing a level 0 dump" instructs you to perform a base backup of that volume.
To resolve the error, select Base Backup as the job type when running the job before running it as an incremental.