Jobs retry delay & Schedule backup attempts settings
Hi I am new to NetBackup, and just take over the role from previous admin.
Just reliase that our NetBackup server do not retry failed job.
Looking at the settings at our Master Server properties:
Job retry delay: 60 minutes
Schedule backup attempts: 3 tries in 1 hours
Looks like the "Schedule backup attempts" setting is not correct, am I right? The job only retry after 1 hour, but the attempts only allow within 1 hour.
What if I change the setting to
Job retry delay: 60 minutes (or 30 minutes)
Schedule backup attempts: 3 tries in 1 hours (3 tries in 6 hours/3 tries in 12 hours)
Please help.Thanks a lot.
The previous settings are not making sense - 3 tries in one hour, with 60 minutes between the retries!
There is no way that this can work!The default is 2 tries every 12 hours, with 10 minutes between retries.
I feel that every 12 hours is too far apart as most week-night backup windows are less than 12 hours for most customers.
So, I like 2 tries every 3 hours with 10-15 min delay between retries.
Decide on something that will work for you. The delay between tries should be long enough for someone to troubleshoot and fix the problem.
A retry without doing anything about it makes no sense.
A status 59 will just fail again if nobody adds a Server entry on the client for the media server trying to back it up.
A status 96 will fail again if nobody adds more tapes. Etc... etc... etc...The interval (every # hours) should be big enough so that not too much load is put on the scheduler (nbpem), the resource broker (nbrb) and the job manager (nbjm), but small enough to ensure that failed jobs are retried within the backup window.
Hope this is making sense!