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dtrb's avatar
dtrb
Level 2
15 years ago

retrying failed jobs

this might be a basic question but: I have a job that failed after several retries with a: NBU status:96, EMM status: No media is available because I ran out of tapes in the pool. I added more...
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  • rjrumfelt's avatar
    rjrumfelt
    15 years ago
    then you should not have to go back - you should just be able to restart the job from the activity monitor from the last checkpoint, however we do not use them in our environment so I am not the most familiar with checkpoints.

    One way to check for sure to see if you need to rerun anything is mock up a restore, and spot check what, if anything, is available from the backup that failed.  If you see that some of the streams that finished are available for restore, then you should only need to rerun the 100 or so streams that failed.
dtrb's avatar
dtrb
Level 2
15 years ago

Although it was hard to really tell what was happening (due to the fact that it creates sooo many jobs)  I can only assume it "did the right thing" based on the fact that the retried job finished up in just a few hours, where the original job ran for about 9 hours. Plus, when I did a bpverify to get a list of the tapes, there were only 2 total, so I think all is well. Thanks to all for the input.