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Tev
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9 years ago
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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.

  • 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.

  • Full and Incr schedules must be in the same policy.
    Ensure that a successful Full for the policy exists before running Incr in the same policy.
  • I would say to check the daily schedule configuration.

     What type of backup you are referring here?

    What is the size of the Weekly and Monthly Full backups for this client?

    Since when the daily backup started backing up 1 TB?

    Any configuration changes made to this policy/client recently?

     

    Regards

    Vinod Kumar Edara

     

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      Tev
      Level 2

      This is a Differential Incremental Backup the the job hasnt changed since I took over.

      It has run quite a few times succesfully but it recently started this behavior. 

       

      The Full backup for this client is on a different policy.

      I will be creating a new policy with both the Full and Daily in the same policy.