Netbackup Large Daily Backup
Hi all,
I have a question on regards to daily backups for an environment I am taking over.
I am noticing that Daily incremental backups are performing Full backups.
The activity monitor still shows the jobs as a Daily schedule but the backup size is 1TB plus.
The policy for this job only has a Daily schedules, the Weekly and Monthly schedules are on another policy.
Is this best practice.
thank you.
Certainly not best practice, but that is not to say it can't work.
What type is the Daily schedule ? See under attributes on the schedule properties
Could be a configuration error, as the default type is Full when creating a schedule.
Another thing that can cause something like this is another program setting the archive bit so everything gets backed up. The migation of that is to use modified time.
Incremental backups act as full backups if the backup policy doesn't contain a full backup schedule.
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH164114