INTERNAL ONLY NDMP backup fails with No supported backup type found on NDMP data service (4045151)

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Title: NDMP backup fails with No supported backup type found on NDMP data service

Date: 25/11/2008
NV Version: all
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Description:
The article talks about certain versions of Ontap having a problem that causes NDMP backup failure.


Symptoms:

Intermitantly NDMP backups fail with “No supported backup type found on NDMP data service�

What is typically seen in binary log is seen below:

Information 2008/11/23 20:00:01 495 Schedule BC Starting phase 1 on BC
Job Message 2008/11/23 20:00:01 495 Jobs BC Starting job 495 'netapp2 Daily Diff (/vol/vol2)' (Phase 1 , Instance 45) for UID 0
Error 2008/11/23 20:00:05 495 Data Plugin BC No supported backup type found on NDMP data service
Error 2008/11/23 20:00:05 495 Jobs BC Fatal error: Backup failed

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