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maxsven
Level 4
11 years ago

Resuming NDMP jobs?

Hi, I am trying to understand if there is a way that NDMP policy based jobs that fail can be restarted without having to backup the whole thing again. I got multiple jobs that failed after runn...
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  • watsons's avatar
    watsons
    11 years ago

    "resume" option is tied to the "checkpoint" feature. So if your policy supports checkpoint, you can suspend and resume it later, obviously not NDMP type.

    There is no way Netbackup can do that, not unless the NAS itself supports such feature because Netbackup is merely calling the NAS commands to perform backup/restore. 

    To keep your scenario manageable, I would split the backup selection into a smaller directory (instead of volume) and this way if a backup fails, you can restart just the directory you need to.

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watsons
Level 6
11 years ago

"resume" option is tied to the "checkpoint" feature. So if your policy supports checkpoint, you can suspend and resume it later, obviously not NDMP type.

There is no way Netbackup can do that, not unless the NAS itself supports such feature because Netbackup is merely calling the NAS commands to perform backup/restore. 

To keep your scenario manageable, I would split the backup selection into a smaller directory (instead of volume) and this way if a backup fails, you can restart just the directory you need to.