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 running out of tapes (status96)
I am aware that NDMP policies can’t use be configured to use a checkpoint. So I am not sure how they would handle restarting a failed backup from a specific point.
For all failed jobs that I had, when I right click the job, I only see a “restart” option. The “resume” option is greyed out.
I have loaded new scratch media, how can I resume those jobs from the point they failed without having to restart the entire backup? (or how would I do that in the future).
Running Netbackup 7.5.0.4 on Windows Server 2008 R2
NDMP host is NetApp.
"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.