NetBackup schedules run manualy and protection of full backup
Hi!
Have two questions
1.
Manual backup
I have policy which runs VM full backup each Sunday (backup window Sunday) and differential backups each day (backup window night). On the past week i run full backup manually in Thursday and so, backup have not run in Sunday as i planned. As i know (not so long ago :) if NetBackup calculate next schedule run time from the last successful backup, my last successful backup was manual backup in Thursday, but backup window set to Sunday, so it cannot run in Thursday, it may run just in next Sunday. Is it possible somehow to make NetBackup perform scheduled backup in time even if i run manual backup?
2.
Protection of full backups.
For example i have policy to make full backup each week in Sunday and store them one week and differential each day and store them 7 days. For example something has happened and full backup did not run in time, is full backup expire even if differential backup exists? I understand that after expiration of full backup, next differential will be the same as full, but is time between two differentials is this is a risk to lose all consistent backups? Or i better to keep full backups for a longer time?
Thank you very much for your answers.
1. Create another schedule for Full - Call it something like Full-Manual with no backup window, so it will never try to run automatically.
See this article about Frequency Based scheduling (be sure to download the pdf):
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/netbackup-frequency-based-scheduling2. Not a good idea to keep weekly backup for one week only...
Retention and recovery needs is determined by company policy and should never be a backup admin's decision.