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Applies to

  • Clustered Data ONTAP 8.x
  • ONTAP 9.x

Issue

The feature described in this article provides the capability to backup and restore the configuration information. This feature depends on a number of other modules.

  1. It saves the generated backup files on the root volumes.
  2. It relies on cluster jobs to create cluster backup archives.
  3. It uses an FR service to copy the backup archives among the nodes in the cluster.
  4. It creates root volume snapshots when creating backup archives.

If any of these dependent modules fail, this feature will fail its functionality.

Log messages indicating failure of Backup Archive Creation:

cluster_backup_job::queue_local_backup_jobs - Failed to queue local job for %s Error: %s
cluster_backup_job::check_for_node_backups - Node: %s Backup Errored.
cluster_backup_job::check_for_node_backups - Failed to get job info for node: %s
cluster_backup_job::queue_local_backup_jobs - The node %s is not included in cluster backup
config_backup_create_handler::create_local_tarball - Failed to get the value of thebootarg.init.cfimagebase variable
config_backup_create_handler::create_snapshot - Failed to get rdb version
fill_node_backup_list - Could not find the directory %s to be backed-up
generate_cluster_conf_manifest - Could not determine the cluster uuid
generate_cluster_conf_manifest - Could not determine the software version
generate_node_conf_manifest - Could not determine the software version
generate_node_conf_manifest - Could not determine the hardware model
config_backup_restore_ops::create_dir - Failed to create the backup dir because of: %d
config_backup_restore_ops::create_dir - Found a non-directory in place of the backup dir
config_backup_restore_ops::create_dir - Found invalid permissions on backup dir
config_backup_create_handler::create_snapshot - root snapshot delete zapi failed:retval: %s
config_backup_restore_ops::clean_snapshots - failed to delete snapshot %s
config_backup_create_handler - failed to delete the temp dir %s

The following EMS messages are generated:

mgmtgwd.configbr.backupFailed

  • Message Type - Backup file creation failed.
  • This message occurs when the configuration backup cannot be created.
  • Source - filer
  • Sample Message - The %s configuration backup %s cannot be created. Error: '%s'.
  • Corrective Action:  Refer to the solution section Below

 

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