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JonathanV1
Level 3
5 years ago

Incremental job running as Full after failure

Our Incremental backup job that is scheduled to run every day at 10 p.m. failed on 3/31. I tried to restart the job, but it failed with an E00081D9 error code.  As far as I could tell, the BE Job Eng...
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Windows Server 2012 R2
  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    5 years ago

    Once you have a failure, you should always regard the backup chain as suspect and start a new chain with a full backup.  Do not attempt to continue with the failed chain.  You might not be able to restore from that chain.

    The article that you referred to is talking about the situation when the data source is a NAS or some appliance on which you cannot install the BE agent.  In those cases, you can only do full backups.

    When you upgrade the BE Server, you should always make sure that you update the BE agent on all other servers as soon as possible.  Without the most up-to-date agent, you may not get the updated functionalities of the latest update or you might experience unexplanable problems.

     

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pkh
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Once you have a failure, you should always regard the backup chain as suspect and start a new chain with a full backup.  Do not attempt to continue with the failed chain.  You might not be able to restore from that chain.

The article that you referred to is talking about the situation when the data source is a NAS or some appliance on which you cannot install the BE agent.  In those cases, you can only do full backups.

When you upgrade the BE Server, you should always make sure that you update the BE agent on all other servers as soon as possible.  Without the most up-to-date agent, you may not get the updated functionalities of the latest update or you might experience unexplanable problems.

 

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JonathanV1
Level 3
5 years ago

Many thanks, pkh, understood. Looks like we're going to re-do our backup jobs and schedule, and start with a full over the weekend. With any luck, maybe I can speed up the performance a bit.

So, my next question is how to go about making space on the drive containing BEData. Apart from an old virtual disk image and an empty Temp/Backup Exec folder, there's nothing in that folder except for BEData and the hidden BEControl. We have a 50 GB-limit on the BKF files, so we have quite a few of those files in there. Many backup sets have expired, but they're still kept by the system since they'd still be needed for a full restore. I can store this weekend's Full job on another drive, but I'm going to need to make some space before we resume daily incrementals next week. Thanks again. 

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    pkh
    Moderator
    5 years ago

    Unfortunately, you know the answer as well as I do.  You would have to expire some backup chain in your disk storage to free up the necessary space for your new backup chain.

    If you are very tight on disk space, I would suggest that after this, you look into getting more disk space.  It is not good to have to hunt for disk space in an emergency.

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      JonathanV1
      Level 3
      5 years ago

      Cool, thanks for the confirmation. Deleting an old chain makes me nervous, but I can see that it needs to be done. I was able to get some space back by "re-expiring" sets that were already listed as Expired. I had done some testing on a spare machine, and even though they were one-time backups and had expired, they still were taking up space. So, that helped, crisis averted - for now. Guess we'll start lining up some new storage space.