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  2. NetBackup™ NAS Administrator's Guide
  3. Section II. Using NAS-Data-Protection (D-NAS)
  4. Troubleshooting
  5. Discovery and snapshot operations fail with the errors 156 and 1542
NetBackup™ NAS Administrator's Guide

Discovery and snapshot operations fail with the errors 156 and 1542

Explanation:

Occurs when the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center services are not running properly.

Workaround:

You need to restart the services in the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center correctly so that your environmental data is preserved.

Run the following command using the flexsnap_configure CLI:

# flexsnap_configure restart

Retry the operation.

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