Cumulative NDMP backup fails for FlexGroup Volumes
Applies to
- ONTAP 9.10.1
- NDMP
Issue
- Cumulative NDMP backup fails for FlexGroup Volume with error "Could not find an appropriate dumpdate entry for the requested backup"
- The dump_date is present in all constituents of the FlexGroup volume
- Full Backup – showing date based backup type:
DEBUG: DMA<<S V4 sequence=327187 (0x4fe13)DEBUG:      Time_stamp=0x6469093e (May 20 14:54:06 2023)DEBUG:      message type=0 (NDMP4_MESSAGE_REQUEST)DEBUG:      message_code=0x603 (NDMP4_LOG_MESSAGE)DEBUG:      reply_sequence=0 (0x0)DEBUG:      error_code=0 (NDMP4_NO_ERR)DEBUG:      log_type=0 (NDMP4_LOG_NORMAL)DEBUG:      message_id=22 (0x16)DEBUG:      entry='DUMP_DATE is 'eb7e7eae-1466-40a0-aa42-b5c3f3aef728:1'\n'- Incremental backup – showing level based backup type:
DEBUG: DMA>>S V4 sequence=13 (0xd)DEBUG:      Time_stamp=0x64750915 (May 29 17:20:37 2023)DEBUG:      message type=0 (NDMP4_MESSAGE_REQUEST)DEBUG:      message_code=0x401 (NDMP4_DATA_START_BACKUP)DEBUG:      reply_sequence=0 (0x0)DEBUG:      error_code=0 (NDMP4_NO_ERR)DEBUG:      butype_name= 'dump'DEBUG:      env_len=6 (0x6)DEBUG:      env[0] name='TYPE' value='dump'DEBUG:      env[1] name='FILESYSTEM' value='/backup_svm/backup_fg/'DEBUG:      env[2] name='PREFIX' value='/backup_svm/backup_fg/'DEBUG:      env[3] name='HIST' value='y'DEBUG:      env[4] name='LEVEL' value='1'DEBUG:      env[5] name='UPDATE' value='Y'Note: If an environmental variable is not set by the backup application, the default value is used
