BE 2012 does not recognize Full Backup?

[EyeintheSky]

Last weekend, I ran a full backup of several of my VMware hosted VMs.  Now I want to create a differential backup of one of those VMs, but when I try to do that Backup Exec 2012 (Sp4) wants to create a full backup and then a differential.  Even if I put the full on hold, the differential is scheduled for after it. Is there anyway to make the Backup Exec 2012 recognize the fact that it has already done a full backup of the VM in question and just execute a differential?.    

[lmosla]

Were the full backups that you ran previously One time backups?  

The differential needs to be associated with a full backup that has been created and ran as a typical backup job. A One Time backup has limitations. 

[EyeintheSky]

No it was not a One-time backup job.  The Full backup was part of a re-occurring weekend job.  How does one "associate" a job with another job?

[pkh · Accepted solution]

No.  You cannot do do this.  The differential backup must reference a full backup hence the full backup and the differential backup MUST be in one job.  If this differential backup is going to be recurring, then you should add it to the recurring backup which contains the full backup.

[EyeintheSky]

*Sigh*  Thanks.  I hope this gets fixed in 2014.