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IsaacICSM
Level 3
12 years ago

Unable to delete job in BE 2012

Hello, I have changed some of my jobs around and for some reason I can not remove one of the jobs that exists. As you can see in the screen shot attached, there are two Daily jobs - one at the to...
2012
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Configuring
  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    12 years ago

    You don't have to pair a daily full backup with a daily differential backup.  The schedule of the full and differential backup can differ.  The only requirement is that you need to run a full backup before you run a differential backup.  Normally, the backup cycle is a weekly full backup with daily incremental/differential backup.

    For you, the best is to forget about this job and start afresh.

    1) create a new backup job. 

    2) you will see two jobs, a full backup and an incremental backup.

    3) change the schedule of the full backup to a weekly schedule

    4) change the method of the incremental job to differential and the schedule to a daily one.

    5) add in a monthly full backup and you are done.

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IsaacICSM
Level 3
12 years ago

Great, thank you pkh for your help, I will start again, again and try to get it working.

I do find it odd that it is not possible to delete that job without starting completely over.

I think that the setup would have worked if it was not for that one fault - I could be very wrong with that comment though.

I agree with you VJware, that it does defeat the purpose having a daily full and diff, that is why I am trying to remove the full, however I am unable to do so (as posted above, and in the image, there is no delete or remove icon displayed in for the daily full).

Edit:

I have marked the solution for pkh, as what he has stated is correct however I don't believe that it is a very acceptable solution from Symantec's point of view - if that you need to delete the whole backup set to remove one job, it could become a very tedious excercise.

I am not having a go at pkh in this, so please don't take it that way.